4752 
3 

y 1 



CLASS OF 1873 



Rutgers College 



HISTORY TO t9J7 



This pamphlet has been sent to you with the compliments of the 
Class of 1873, Rutgers College. If it proves acceptable an acknowl- 
edgment of its receipt will be gratefully appreciated by 

William A. Chapman, 
P. O. Box 27, 

Montreal, P. Q. 



CHRONICLES 

of the 

Class of 1873 

RUTGERS COLLEGE 



Compiled by 

WiLUAM Allen Chapman 

June, 1917. ' 



fencllecl c.0T\'ect loias oxj VV.h.d 



J S73 






Classical Section 
Graduates 



ROBERT ADRAIN. 
Died in New Brunswick, N. J., January 30, 1911. 

Son of Garnet B. and Mary Smith [Griggs] Adrain, he was born in 
New Brimswick, N. J., December 17, 1853, and resided in that city all 
of his life. His father, a graduate of Rutgers, A.B. 1833, A.M. 1836, 
was a very prominent lawyer in New Brunswick, and a Member of 
Congress from New Jersey, 1857-61. His grandfather, Robert Adrain, 
A.M. (Queen's 1810), LL.D. (Columbia 1818), was a mathematician and 
professor in Queen's, 1809-13; Columbia, 1813-25; Rutgers, 1825-27; 
Univ. of Penna., 1827-3-4; Vice-Provost Univ. of Penna., 1828-34; born 
in Ireland. Another Robert Adrain was his father's brother, who gradu- 
ated at Rutgers, A.B. 1827, A.M. 1830; was a lawyer, District Attorney 
of Middlesex County, N. J., 1836; Surrogate, 1864. 

He attended Rutgers Prep School; entered Rutgers in 1869; joined 
Delta Phi ; played baseball ; was a Junior orator ; graduated A.B. 1873, 
A.M. 1876, and took a post-graduate course, 1883-84. He read law in 
his father's office ; was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as attorney 
1876, as counselor 1885 ; and then practiced his profession from offices 
in New Brunswick and in Newark, N. J. As a Democrat he represented 
Middlesex County in the Senate of New Jersey, 1888-94; was President 
of that body, 1891-94; Colonel on staff of the Governor, 1890; Prosecutor 
in Middlesex County, 1890-91 ; Corporation Attorney for City of New 
Brunswick, 1910-11. 

He was twice married. First, at Newtown, Long Island, N. Y., May 
20, 1874, to Fannie N. Beekman of New York City. Of this marriage 
there were born, Robert, who died in infancy, and Fannie Beekman, 
who survives (1916). Second, on December 25, 1884, to Jennie, daughter 
of William Rowland of New York City and of Dean's near New Bruns- 
wick. One son, Robert, now surviving, was born of this union. 

FREDERICK ERNEST ALLEN. 
5 ■ Brook Haven, Long Island, N. Y. 

Son of George Dennis Allen, merchant, and Elizabeth Ann Peck, he 
was born in New Haven, Conn., April 21, 1850. His father was of the 

(3) 



4 CLASS OF 1873 

seventh generation in descent from John Ailing, a settler in that town 
prior to 1652, and his mother of the ninth generation from William Peck, 
one of the founders in 1638. 

Before entering college he resided in Cheshire, Conn., Orange, N. J., 
Madison, N. J., 1858-65; Newark, N. J., 1865-68, where he was em- 
ployed in a jewelry factory; attended the academy at Madison, 1858-64, 
and the one in Morristown, N. J., 1864-65 ; and his further education for 
the ministry was assumed by the First Church of Newark (Ref. Ch. of 
Am.), 1868-76. 

He entered Rutgers in 1869 ; won first prize as a Sophomore orator ; 
was a Junior orator; and in Senior year won the Suydam Prize for 
English composition, also the Cruikshank Prize for the best speech at 
graduation, when he delivered the Valedictory Oration (Rhetorical 
Honor). He was corresponding secretary of Delta Upsilon; in Senior 
year an editor of The Scarlet Letter; senior editor of The Targum in 
third term ; and a member of the "Original Football Team." He gradu- 
ated from Rutgers, A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876; from New Brunswick Theo- 
logical Seminary, 1876; resided in Brookfield, Conn., 1876-77, and in 
New York City, 1877-78, while pursuing a post-graduate course in Union 
Theological Seminary. 

Licensed to preach by the Classis of Newark (Ref. Ch. of Am.), 
May, 1876, he was ordained May 29, 1879, and installed pastor of the 
Presbyterian Church at Middle Island, L. I., N. Y., which he served till 
1892 ; was pastor of Congregational Church, Griswold, Conn., 1892-1906 ; 
and of Presbyterian Church at Brook Haven, L. I., N. Y., since 1908; 
Moderator of Presbytery of Long Island, 1880 and 1906; Delegate to 
Synod of New York, 1881, 1886, 1909; Commissioner to General Assem- 
bly, 1889. He remodeled and refurnished the Congregational Church at 
Griswold, and has published the sermon preached in October, 18%, at 
the funeral of Deacon Joseph Edward Leonard of that town. He is a 
Republican. 

He married, at Middle Island, March 29, 1889, Ada Amelia, daughter 
of Elbert Jotham and Martha [Randall] Swezey. There are no children. 

HERBERT BOGGS. 

Residence, 333 Ridge Street, Newark, N. J. 

Office, 790 Broad Street, Newark, N. J. 

Son of Rev. Edward Brenton and Elizabeth Dunham [Deshler] 
Boggs, he was born in Swedesboro, Gloucester County, N. J., June 3, 
1853. His father was a non-graduate member of the class of 1842, Rut- 
gers, a graduate of Union Theological Seminary, 1845, and a Protestant 
Episcopal clergyman, D.D. (Rutgers, 1866). His mother was an aunt 
of Charles Deshler, non-graduate, class of 1885, Rutgers. 

In childhood and youth he resided in Swedesboro, Bedford in West- 



CLASSICAL SECTION— GRADUATES 5 

Chester County, N. Y., and New Brunswick, N. J., where he attended 
Rutgers Prep School, 1867-69. He entered Rutgers in 1869, graduated 
A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876; read law in the office of Parker and Keasbey, 
Newark ; was admitted to the bar of New Jersey by the Supreme Court 
of Trenton, as attorney, 1876; as counsellor, November, 1879. He 
practices law in Newark, where he has resided since 1873 ; is a mem- 
ber of the Protestant Episcopal Church; and enjoys angling. A Demo- 
crat, he has been Corporation Attorney, City of Newark, 1900-03 ; again 
1911-14; and Assistant Attorney General of New Jersey since 1914. 

He married, May 9, 1893, Frances May, daughter of Henry and Fanny 
[Van Buren] Le Viness, and has a daughter, Helen Cranstoim, born 
September 21, 1894. 

GEORGE HULL CLEVELAND. 
Died in Brooklyn, N. Y., February 22, 1906. 

Son of Orin L. Cleveland, an insurance agent, and Catherine E, Nie- 
master, he was born in New York City, May 27, 1851. At an early age 
he united with the South Congregational Church of Brooklyn, N. Y., and 
before entering college he resided first in that city and later in Williams- 
town, Mass. After preparation at Williamstown and in Rutgers Prep 
School, he entered Rutgers in 1869, graduated A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876, 
also from New Brunswick Theological Seminary 1876, and was ordained 
the same year by the Classis of New Brunswick (Ref. Ch. of Am.). 

He was pastor of the church at Clinton Station (Ref. Ch. of Am.), 
Annandale, N. J., 1877 till 1881, when he resigned because of ill health, 
and traveled in England and France, 1881-82; stated supply to the Pres- 
byterian Church, Cape May City, N. J., 1882-85 ; pastor of Presbyterian 
Church, Northport, L. I., N. Y., 1886-89, and then, retiring from the 
active pastorate, became a teacher, first in a military school in New Jer- 
sey, afterward in a school at College Point, L. I., N. Y. Shortly before 
his death he removed to Brooklyn. He -never-married. 

WILLIAM WYNKOOP COOK. 
RoUa, Missouri. 

Born at Churchville, Pa., November 21, 1843, he attended "a good 
country school in boyhood," and later the State Normal School, Millers- 
viUe, Pa., 1867-69. 

In 1869 he entered Rutgers from Richboro, Pa. ; in Junior year won 
the Van Doren Prize for Essay on Christian Missions, the Schermerhorn 
Prize for Composition, and election to Phi Beta Kappa; in Senior year 
the Suydam Prize in Natural Science and the Philosophical Oration 
(Third Honor), at graduation; was president of the Classical Section of 
the class in Sophomore year, and senior editor, The Targum, first term, 
Senior year. 



6 CLASS OF 1873 

He graduated from Rutgers, A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876; from Union 
Theological Seminary, New York City, 1876 ; was ordained by the Classis 
of Philadelphia (Ref. Ch. of Am.), May 8, 1876, in that city; was pastor 
of the Fourth Church (Ref. Ch. of Am.) in Philadelphia, Pa., 1876-81; 
clergyman attached to the Northwest Iowa Conference, Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, October, 1881 ; an ardent and active participant in the 
prohibition movement in Iowa; retired, 1897, to his domain of "sixty 
acres of Ozark mountain air and scenery" at Rolla, Missouri. He is the 
author of pamphlets : "Usury in the Light of the Bible and History," Re- 
publican Print, Rockwell City, la., 1887 ; "Purity Established by Knowl- 
edge," Index Press, Hull, la., 1891; "Springtime Life Lessons," 1911. 

He married, at Churchville, Pa., September 8, 1875, Sue D. Richard- 
son. They have one daughter living in the Province of Alberta, Canada; 
a son in Minnesota ; and another son, a mining engineer in Ecuador, 
S. A. — all married. 

GEORGE RILEY DIXON. 
Died in Ridgway, Pa., June 11, 1912. 

Born in the town of Neversink, SuUivan County, N. Y., July 23, 1848, 
the son of Henry and Catherine Dixon, natives of Dutchess County, 
N. Y. ; orphaned at the age of thirteen years, he found a home with Dr. 
J. L. Lamoree, of Grahamville, N. Y., working for his board and cloth- 
ing, and attending the village school, 1861-66; graduated at the academy 
in Monticello, N. Y., June 20, 1868; attended Rutgers Prep School one 
year, 1868-69. 

He entered Rutgers in 1869; joined Delta Upsilon; was a member of 
the "Original FootbaU Team" ; a Sophomore orator ; won the Van Doren 
Prize for Essay on Christian Missions in Senior year ; was an orator at 
Commencement, and graduated A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876. "While in college 
he supported himself largely by giving special lessons in English to Japan- 
ese students, who were sent to the institution by order of the government 
of Japan." ' ,, :^l 

"In September, 1873, Mr. Dixon came to Ridgway, where he was 
principal of the schools two years. In May, 1875, he was elected county 
superintendent of the schools of Elk County, which position he held for 
twelve years ; began the study of law with Ruf us Lacore at Ridgway, 
and spent considerable time likewise in the law office of George A. Rath- 
bun, and May 30, 1878, was admitted to the bar. On December 4, 1884, 
he purchased the Elk Democrat and ran that journal successfully for 
several years" ; and he published in 1876 "a complete history of school 
education in Elk County." He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church ; 
a member of Knapp Commandery of the Knights Templar, and a Demo- 
crat, being several times chairman of the county committee of Elk, and 
representing that county four terms in the Pennsylvania Legislature, 
1893-1901. 



CLASSICAL SECTION— GRADUATES 7 

He married, in September, 1874, at Napanoch, N. Y., Lotiise, daughter 
of Horace and Susan [Kenyon] Eaton. Mrs. Dixon died Imtg-SEgo. Oot . 2,8 j 1^97. 
Children: Mabel Eaton, born September 17, 1876, died March A 1911; 
Clark Kenyon, born March 2^ Ig^g- (-?)^ manufacturer, Ridgway, Pa.; /SSS 
Helen Louise, born June 6, 1881 ; married Edwin R. Buenzle, dealer in 
investment securities, AUentown, Pa. 

(Extracted or adapted, in part, from The Daily Record, Ridgway, 
Pa., June 13, 1912.) 

CHARLES PIERSON DORRANCE. 

Residence, 519 Riverside Drive, New York City. 

Office, 35 Nassau Street, New York City. 

Born in Carbondale, Pa., May 25, 1852, a son of John and Rhoda 
Schenck [Golden] Dorrance. His father was of the fifth generation in 
descent from George Dorrance, an emigrant from the Province of Ulster, 
Ireland, and a settler in Voluntown, Conn., about 1720, and was a mer- 
chant in Freehold and mayor when he died in 1885. His great-grand- 
father, Captain David Dorrance, an officer in our War for Independence, 
was a charter member of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of 
Connecticut. His brother, John Golden Dorrance, M.D. (Coll. P. & S.. 
1879), is a non-graduate of the class of 1878, Rutgers. 

In childhood and youth he lived in Carbondale, Pa. ; later in Freehold, 
N. J., where he attended Monmouth Institute, 1859-65, and Freehold 
Institute, 1867-68, and was in Rutgers Prep School, January-June, 1869. 

Entering Rutgers in 1869, he joined Chi Phi and was president of the 
Peithessophian Society ; was an orator at graduation, and graduated 
A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876. 

He studied law at Freehold in the office of Judge William Henry 
Vredenburgh (Rutgers, A.B. 1859, A.M. 1862, LL.D. 1907, Trustee 
1902) ; was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as attorney, June, 1876, as 
counsellor, June, 1879, and of New York as both, 1882 ; has continued the 
practice of law, and was U. S. Commissioner for New Jersey, 1878-87. 

He is a Republican ; was nominated for New Jersey Legislature in 
1880, but declined to run. Favorite recreation is bowling. 

Residences since leaving college: Freehold, N. J., 1873-76; Eaton- 
town, N. J., 1876-77; Long Branch, N. J., 1877-80; New Brunswick, 
N. J., 1880-86; New York City since 1886. He is connected with the 
Reformed Church of America and attends the West End Collegiate 
Church. 

He married at New Brunswick, N. J., April 10, 1878, Libbie Letson 
Acken, whose father, William Henry Acken (Rutgers, A.B. 1851, A.M. 
1854), was president of the New Jersey Rubber Co., and whose mother 
was Mary S. Letson, daughter of Johnson Letson of New Brunswick, a 



8 CLASS OF 1873 

Trustee of Rutgers, 1863-85. Their only child, Edith Acken Dorrance, 
born July 21, 1879, married, October 27, 1903, Herbert Bradley Sexton 
of Evanston, 111., and has three children, Edith Dorothy, Herbert Bradley, 
Jr., and Dorrance. 

JOSEPH ALEXANDER HARPER. 
Died at Scarsdale, N. Y., 1917. 

Born in Lisnatierny, County Down, Ireland, September 20, 1839, the 
son of Alexander and Eliza Ann [Lowry] Harper. His father was a 
patentee and manufacturer of winnowing machines. He came to the 
United States in 1850, residing first in Morrisania, N. Y., then in Mount 
Vernon, N. Y., where he attended the public school and Oakley Institute. 

Entering Rutgers in 1869, he won Honorable Mention as a Sopho- 
more orator; was assistant editor of The Targum in second term of 
Senior year; graduated A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876; graduated at New Bruns- 
wick Theological Seminary 1875 ; was licensed to preach by the Classis 
of New Brunswick in May, 1875, and ordained one month later by the 
Classis of Westchester, N. Y., both of the Reformed Church of America. 
He has continued his connection with that denomination; has been par- 
ticularly energetic in building, renovating and furnishing church edifices ; 
and has ministered to the following churches, all in the State of New 
York: Cortlandtown (Montrose), 1874-89; Mount Vernon, 1889-93; 
Greenville (town of Greenburg), 1893-1905; Schaghticoke, 1905-09; 
Olmsford, 1910-11. He has resided in Scarsdale since 1911 and is pastor 
of a church which he organized in 1913. In 1884, as delegate of the 
General Synod, Reformed Church of America, he attended the Pan- 
Presbyterian Council convened in Belfast, Ireland, and then "had the 
time of his life" touring through the British Isles. 

In secular activities he was associated (in New York City, 1899-1906) 
with J. H. Johnston, jeweler, corner of Broome street and the Bowery, 
and was vice-president of J. H. Johnston & Co., dealers in diamonds and 
silverware, Union Square. 

He was Chaplain of Diamond Lodge, No. 595, F. & A. M., at Dobbs 
Ferry, N. Y., 1896-1905, and Prelate of Bethlehem Commandery, No. 93, 
Knights Templar, at Mount Vernon, 1903-06 ; is a Republican ; and con- 
fesses to "a Hking for a horse." 

He has been twice married. First, at Mount Vernon, N. Y., October 4, 
1860, to Lovena Lindsley, daughter of James S, and Sarah [Price] Van 
Court of New Brunswick, N. J. Mrs. Harper died March 6, 1895. 
Children: Charles Wallace, born November 10, 1863; Grace Eveline, 
born April 2, 1867; Edith Lovena, born June 10, 1877; May Wharton, 
born May 9, 1879. Second, November, 1896, to Laura I., daughter of 
Aaron and Elizabeth [Underbill] Seeley and widow of Seaman Archer. 



CLASSICAL SECTION— GRADUATES 9 

HOWARD HARRIS. 
Died in Los Angeles, Cal., January 13, 1916. 

Born in Belleville, N. J., July 29, 1848, the son of Elijah Harris, he 
entered Rutgers in 1869 after preparation under private tutors ; gradu- 
ated A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876; graduated at New Brunswick Theological 
Seminary 1876, and "in the same year the Classis of Newark licensed him 
and the Classis of Westchester ordained and installed him as pastor of 
the church at Hawthorne, N. Y. There he served eight years. In 1884 
he was commissioned by the Board of Foreign Missions to go to Japan, 
and for sixteen years he was professor at the Meiji Gakuin at Tokyo • 
(1884-1900). Returning to America, he again served the church at Haw- 
thorne, N. Y., for six years (1904-10). Then going to California, he be- 
came instructor in the Oriental Department of the University of Southern 
California at Los Angeles. After four years in this position he had 
charge of a Japanese church at Kahului, Hawaiian Islands, for another 
year (1914-15). His health compelled his return to California, and there 
he died after a few months of illness. Mr. Harris was a faithful servant 
of Christ, a loyal friend and true brother in the Lord. His work through 
the grace of God was a noble one." 

He married, November 15, 1876, Elizabeth B. Disbrow of New Bruns- 
wick, N. J., who survives. 

(Minutes of the General Synod of the Reformed Church of America.) 

DANIEL TRIMBLE HAWXHURST. 
Died in Kingsbridge, New York City, January 10, 1915. 

Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., December 12, 1852, a son of Joseph Wood- 
ard and Jane [Schanck] Hawxhurst. His father served his country as 
quartermaster in the army during the Civil War. 

He prepared for college at Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, 
N. J., his home being then in Marlboro, N. J. ; entered Rutgers in 1869 ; 
joined Delta Upsilon ; was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in Junior year ; 
was one of the "Original Football Team" ; as First Honor Man he deliv- 
ered the Latin Salutatory upon graduating, A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876; and 
he attended New Brunswick Theological Seminary one year, 1873-74. 
He resided in Brooklyn, N. Y., 1874 to 1878, then in Kingsbridge until 
his death. Politically he was a Republican. 

For many years he was a vestryman, and for a shorter period treas- 
urer of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Messiah in Kingsbridge. 

As an accountant he entered the employ of Haynes, Bacon & Co., 
wholesale drygoods merchants in New York, 1875, and continued to serve 
them and their successors. Bacon, Baldwin & Co., afterward Bacon & Co., 
for forty years, advancing until he became chief of their clerical staff. 

He married in Kingsbridge, June 13, 1878, Isabel Smith. They had 



10 CLASS OF 1873 

three children: EUiott T., born July 29, 1879; Grace Fulton, born April 
29, 1882 (deceased) ; and Florence Belle, born December 18, 1884. Mrs. 
Hawxhurst survived his demise only two months. 

PETER VERHOEVEN HUYSSOON. 
Died in Orange, N. J., December 11, 1916. 

Born in Buffalo, N. Y., October 13, 1852, a son of Rev. James and 
Catherine Maria [Verhoeven] Huyssoon. His father was a minister of 
the Reformed Church in America in Paterson, N. J., and both parents 
were of Dutch origin. 

He lived first in Holland, Mich., and attended Hope Prep School there 
for three years; then he lived in Paterson, N. J., and after one year in 
Rutgers Prep School entered Rutgers, 1869; was elected to Phi Beta 
Kappa in Junior year; was an editor of and contributor to The Targum; 
a member of the "Original Football Team" ; and a Commencement orator 
when he graduated A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876. 

He resided in Lawrenceville, N. J., 1874-78, while teaching in the 
Lawrenceville School; in Brooklyn, N. Y., 1878-90; and in Orange, N. J., 
1890-1916; was head of Latin and Greek Department of Adelphi Acad- 
emy, Brooklyn, 1878-87; part owner and president of Dwight School, 
New York City, 1887-90; with Union School Bureau, 1890-95; and was 
part owner and sometime manager of Fisk Teachers' Agency, New York 
City, 1895 until his retirement in 1915. He was a member of the First 
Presbyterian Church of Orange; a Republican; a member of the New 
England Society of the Oranges ; an occasional contributor to periodicals, 
and a connoisseur in gardening and poultry raising. 

He married in Elizabeth, N. J., October — , 1878, Kate Franklin, 
daughter of John P. and Mary E. [Franklin] Sunderland of that city. 
They had one daughter, Clara May, born December — , 1879, who is now 
the wife of Paul F. Handel of Orange. Mrs. Huyssoon survives. 

GEORGE SHARP KNICKERBOCKER. 

27 Mount Morris Park West, New York City. 

Born at Red Hook, Dutchess County, N. Y., September 11, 1849, a 
son of Edwin and Catherine E. [Pitcher] Knickerbocker, and continuing 
his residence there, he prepared at Riverside Seminary, Germantown, 
N. Y. ; entered Rutgers in 1869; joined Delta Phi; was an editor of The 
Scarlet Letter, 1873 ; an orator at Sophomore Ex., at Junior Ex., and 
at graduation, A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876; entered College of P. & S., Colum- 
bia University, 1873; graduated M.D. 1876; has been a physician ever 
since. He has resided in Stockbridge, Mass., 1877-83; Albany, N. Y., 
1883-84; and in New York City since 1884. He was Medical Superin- 
tendent of New York Institution for Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb 



CLASSICAL SECTION— GRADUATES 11 

for one year, 1884-85, and Attending Physician to Knickerbocker Hos- 
pital, 1886-1906. 

He married, November 7, 1878, Isabel, daughter of Joseph C. and 
Cornelia [Whitney] Canning. Their children are: Joseph C, born 1879; 
Edwin V. B., born 1881 ; Reginald C, born 1883 ; William E., born 1885. 

Relatives among Rutgers alumni : Cousin, David Mulford Knicker- 
bocker (deceased), A. B. 1870, A. M. 1873; cousin, Rev. Charles Wads- 
worth Pitcher, class of 1873; brother, William Edwin Knickerbocker, 
class of 1875 ; nephew, Edwin Knickerbocker Losee, A.B. 1885, A.M. 
1888, M.D. 1888 (Coll. P. & S.) ; nephew, Harvey Losee, A.B. 1889, 
M.D. 1898 (Univ. N. Y. Med. Coll.) ; grandnephew, Edwin Lamb Losee, 
Litt.B. 1916. 

BLOOMFIELD LITTELL. 

Residence, 46 East Park Street, East Orange, N. J. 

Office, 71 Wall Street, New York City. 

Born in Hoboken, N. J., July 29, 1852, the son of John Dunn and 
Julia E. [Bloomfield] Littell, he has resided in East Orange since child- 
hood. The founder of the Littell family in New Jersey came from New- 
bury, Mass., to Elizabethtown in 1676. Bloomfield Littell's great- 
grandfather, Judge Dunn of Richmond County, N. Y., was succeeded on 
the bench of that county by his grandfather, Richard D. Littell. His 
father was a lawyer in Hoboken, 1848-61 ; served two terms as District 
Attorney of Hudson County, and two as member of the New Jersey 
Assembly; and was Judge Advocate on Governor Price's staff. His 
mother was a daughter of Smith Bloomfield of Metuchen, N. J. (a bene- 
factor to Rutgers in 1865), and Ann Delamater, a descendant of Claude 
Delamater, sometime Mayor of Harlem, New York City. 

He studied in Rutgers Prep School one year, 1868-69; entered Rut- 
gers 1869; played on the football team; graduated A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876; 
read law in the office of Tremain & Tyler, New York City; graduated 
LL.B., Columbia, 1875 ; was admitted to the New York bar, May, 1876, 
and has practiced his profession ever since. He has been president of 
the First Ward Republican Club and trustee and member of the execu- 
tive committee of the First Ward Local Interest Club, both of East 
Orange. He joined the Reformed Church of America in Metuchen in 
1872, and became an elder in the Bethel Presbyterian Church in East 
Orange in 1914. 

He married in Cheshire, Conn., June 7, 1900, Olive F., daughter of 
George E. Tucker. Their children are : Frances Bloomfield, born De- 
cember 13, 1902; and Robert Stuart Delamater, born October 5, 1905. 

Relatives among Rutgers alumni: Uncle, William Bloomfield (de- 
ceased), A.B. 1828, A.M. 1831; cousin, Charles Smith Bloomfield (de- 
ceased), class of 1874; second cousin, Howard Weston Bloomfield, B.Sc. 
(C. C. N. Y., 1901), Cr.E. (Rutgers, 1916). 



12 CLASS OF 1873 

ADRIAN VANDERVEER MARTENSE. 
Died in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 3, 1898. 

Son of Jacob Van Brunt and Eliza Ann [Vanderveer] Martense, he 
was born in Flatbush, Long Island, N. Y., November 5, 1852. His father 
was an alumnus of Rutgers, A.B. 1844, A.M. 1847, and a farmer in Flat- 
bush, who died December 16, 1881. His mother was a daughter of 
Adrian Vanderveer, M.D., "a prominent and well-known physician." 
Another graduate of Rutgers, John Duffield Prince, Jr., A.B. 1876, A.M. 
1879, (Columbia, LL.B. 1878), was his cousin and brother-in-law. 

Ele married in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 15, 1885, Ella, daughter of 
William Brown of Melrose Park, Flatbush. She died November 4, 1896, 
leaving no children. 

He resided in Flatbush before entering college, and after preparation 
at Erasmus Hall Academy in that town he entered Rutgers in 1869; was 
president of the Classical Section of his class in Senior year, and an 
orator at Commencement when he graduated, A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876. 
After a two years' course in Columbia Law School, New York City, he 
graduated LL.B. 1875 ; was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn in June, 
1875, and thereafter practiced his profession in that city, where he con- 
tinued his residence until his death. 

"He was of a jovial disposition, and in the Midwood Club .... 

there was none more popular than he He was a man of much 

natural ability, kind of heart, and very charitable, but unassuming. He 
was a familiar figure in Flatbush, being tall, with broad shoulders and 
very erect, as was his father. Mr. Martense was active in organizing the 
Knickerbocker Field Club, a member of the Midwood and Crescent 
Clubs, and prominent in the Flatbush Reformed Church, where he was 
formerly a deacon, and at one time clerk of the consistory. He was a 
director of the Flatbush Improvement Company." 

ABRAM IRVING MARTINE. 
Died in Pine Bush, N. Y., December 3, 1916. 

Of Huguenot descent in the paternal line, his father a produce mer- 
chant, he was born in Clarkstown, N. Y., October 19, 1848, a son of 
Jeremiah and Charity E. [Crum] Martine; lived on a farm there and 
attended the local school till 1865 ; and was in the service of the mer- 
cantile firm, E. S. Jaffray & Co., of New York City, 1865-68. 

He attended the Rutgers Prep School, 1868-69; entered Rutgers 1869; 
was director of the College Choir; secretary and treasurer of the Phi- 
loclean Society; member of the "Original Football Team," and later cap- 
tain; and was an orator at Commencement when he graduated, A.B. 
1873, A.M. 1876. 

He graduated from New Brunswick Theological Seminary, 1876; in 



CLASSICAL SECTION— GRADUATES 13 

June of that year was licensed to preach by the Classis of Paramus, Re- 
formed Church of America, and in July was ordained by the Classis of 
Philadelphia. He was pastor, Mount Pleasant Church (Ref. Ch. of 
Am.), Stanton, N. J., 1876-82; pastor, North Hempstead Church (Ref. 
Ch. of Am.), Manhasset, L. I., N. Y., 1882-91; pastor, Presbyterian 
Church, Dunellen, N. J., 1891-99; pastor. First Church of Freehold (Ref. 
Ch. of Am.), Marlboro, N. J., 1899-1905; superintendent. General Hos- 
pital, Passaic, N. J., 1905-08; pastor, Little Falls, N. J. (Ref. Ch. of 
Am.), 1908-11; pastor. New Prospect Church (Ref. Ch. of Am.), Pine 
Bush, N. Y., 1911 until his decease. He was president of the Temperance 
Association, also of the Bible Society, of Hunterdon County, N. J., and 
president of Queens County, N. Y., .Sunday School Association ; editor 
of "Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Reformed Church of the Navesink" 
(P. F. Collier & Son, 1904) ; and author of "Historical Address of One 
Hundred Years of the Reformed Church of New Prospect," November 
4, 1915 (synopsis in The Christian Intelligencer, December, 1915). 

He was independent in politics, and athletic by taste and habit, being 
especially fond of football, baseball and tennis. 

He constantly displayed a "youthful activity of mind that made him 
a good companion always. As a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ 
he was devoted to his work; conscientious in all that he did; faithful to 
every trust; efficient in all that he undertook; loyally ministering in the 
name of his Lord, and bearing witness to a godly character." 

He was twice married. First, at Whitehouse, N. J., November 16, 
1876, to Annie M., daughter of Cornelius and Mary WyckofT, and sister 
of John Newton VVyckoff, Rutgers, A.B. 1874, A.M. 1877; Harvard, 
LL.B., 1877, who died November 2, 1880. Children: George Newton, 
born August 3, 1877; Irving Wyckoff, born August 11, 1879; Mary E., 
born October 26, 1881 ; Elizabeth A., born October 12, 1884. Second, at 
Locust Valley, N. Y., August 3, 1888, to Olivia B., daughter of Oliver 
and Sarah [Burton] Gaston and widow of William Chandler. 

JOHN DE WITT PELTZ. ^ 

Died in Albany, N. Y., May 7, 1904. 

Son of Rev. Philip and Mary [De Witt] Peltz, he was born June 26, 
1853, in Coxsackie, N. Y. His father, a graduate of the University of 
Pennsylvania, A.B. 1845, A.M. 1848; of the New Brunswick Theological 
Seminary, 1848; D.D., Union, 1866; was a minister of the Reformed 
Church of America, who died June 26, 1883; and his mother (born Feb- 
ruary 19, 1819; died January 15, 1903), was a daughter of Rev. John 
De Witt, A.B. Union College and College of New Jersey 1809; D.D. 
Union College 1821 ; he was Professor of Belles Lettres Rutgers College 
1825-31 ; and Trustee of Rutgers College 1823-31 ; died October 11, 1831 ; 
and sister of Rev. John De Witt, Rutgers, A.B. 1838, A.M. 1841, D.D. 



14 CLASS OF 1873 

1860; Lafayette, LL.D. 1882; Columbia, Litt.D. 1888; professor in New 
Brunswick Theological Seminary, 1863-92; who died October 19, 1906. 

He attended the Academy in New Paltz, N. Y., where his boyhood 
was chiefly passed while his father was pastor of the local Reformed 
Church; entered Rutgers in 1869; joined Delta Phi; was elected to Phi 
Beta Kappa in Junior year; was a Junior orator; won the Brodhead 
Prize for excellence in Classics, 1873, and the English Salutatory (Sec- 
ond Honor), when he graduated A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876. 

He studied law in the office of the late C P. Collier at Hudson, N. Y. ; 
graduated LL.B. from Albany Law School, 1876; was immediately ad- 
mitted to the bar of the State of New York ; entered the law office of his 
cousin, the late Abraham V. D. De Witt, A. M. (Rutgers, Hon. 1859), 
and practiced law thereafter. He resided in Albany, N. Y., 1876-87; 
Colorado Springs, Col., 1887-90, and was City Attorney there; Albany 
again, 1890-1904. 

He was a Republican ; a vestryman of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal 
Church in Albany ; and shortly before his death was elected a trustee of 
Rutgers but did not qualify. His son writes of him : 

"Father was always a hard worker, and during the last years of his 
life it seemed to all of us that he carried an unfortunately heavy load 
of other people's troubles. ... I think I am within the fact when I 
say that this lovable, tireless and efficient young man of fifty was mourned 
very generally by his townsmen and many friends." 

He was twice married. First, in Albany, April 21, 1881, to Mary 
Marvin, daughter of the late William Law Learned, LL.D., Presiding 
Justice of the General Term, Supreme Court, State of New York. She 
was born April 16, 1856, and she died November 23, 1888. Children : 
William Law Learned, born May 27, 1882, a graduate of Yale 1904, and 
a lawyer of Albany; married, April 29, 1906, Katherine, daughter of the 
late Edward R. Hun, M.D., and has four children. Philip, born April 20, 
1884, died March 26, 1892. Second, in Albany, April 5, 1894, to Cather- 
ine Barnard, daughter of the late Augustus H. Walsh of that city. Chil- 
dren : John De Witt, born January 27, 1895 ; Yale, class of 1919. Cather- 
ine Walsh, born July 20, 1897. 

CLAUDIUS ROCKEFELLER. 

Summer Residence, 604 Gifford Place, Hudson, N. Y. 

Winter Residence, Saint Petersburgh, Fla. 

Office, 403 Warren Street, Hudson, N. Y. 

Born in Germantown, N. Y., September 4, 1849, a son of Philip H. 
and Elizabeth [Miller] Rockefeller, he was of the fifth generation in 
descent from Diel Rockefeller, the first of the name in America. His 
father was a farmer and both parents were descendants of refugees driven 



CLASSICAL SECTION— GRADUATES 15 

by the French from the Palatinate of the Rhine, who settled at German- 
town in 1710. 

He attended Riverside Seminary in Germantown, 1865-69; entered 
Rutgers 1869; joined Delta Upsilon; was one of the "Original Football 
Team" and captain in Senior year ; was awarded a prize by the Philoclean 
Society for Freshman declamation ; a Sophomore orator ; elected to Phi 
Beta Kappa and won the Bradley prize in mathematics, both in Senior 
year; and was a Commencement orator when he graduated A.B. 1873, 
A.M. 1876. 

He studied law in the office of Gaul & Esselstyn at Hudson, N. Y., 
entered Albany Law School 1875, and graduated LL.B. in May, 1876; 
was admitted to the New York bar in Albany, May 8, 1876; and has 
continued to practice law in Hudson until, in recent years, the curtailment 
of his activity by ill-health. He is connected with the Reformed Church 
of America ; is a Democrat, and has served as Deputy Collector of Inter- 
nal Revenue under President Cleveland; Recorder of the City of Hud- 
son, 1890 and 1891; and member of the Board of Education, 1890-95; 
Trustee and Treasurer of Hudson City Hospital for many years ; Trustee 
of Hudson Building and Loan Association, also for a long time ; and was 
associate editor of "Transactions of the Rockefeller Family Association." 

Ezra Doane De Lamater, Rutgers, A.B. 1871, A.M. 1874, a lawyer of 
Hudson, was married to his sister. 

He married in Hudson, June 4, 1879, Lucinda, daughter of Sherman 
and Clarissa [Rich] Van Ness, and sister of Sherman Van Ness, Jr. 
(deceased), Rutgers, A.B. 1880, A.M. 1883; Coll. of P. & S., M.D. 1883. 
Children, born in Hudson : Harold, October 23, 1881 ; Sherman Van 
Ness, October 27, 1884, a graduate of Troy Polytechnic Institute. 

JOHN RYLEY. 
Died at Valley Cottage, N. Y., March 20, 1892. 

Born March 18, 1852, in a region of Rockland County, N. Y., now 
called Valley Cottage, a son of William and Sally [Ryder] Ryley, he 
became an orphan at the age of nine years and the sole survivor of the 
family of four children. His father was a merchant, who by his will 
appointed as his son's guardian Rev. Peter J. Quick (Rutgers, A.B. 1833, 
A.M. 1836), then pastor of the Reformed Church of America at Clarks- 
town, N. Y., who removed with his ward to New Brunswick, N. J., in 
1869, to assume the office of rector of Hertzog Hall, New Brunswick 
Theological Seminary. 

Mr. Ryley entered Rutgers in 1869; graduated A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876; 
studied for one year in Eastman's Business College, and thereafter occu- 
pied himself with the care of the estate left by his father and in assisting 
others in legal and business transactions. 

He resided at Valley Cottage continuously after 1873, excepting one 



16 CLASS OF 1873 

year, 1875-76, at Pearl River, N. Y., and filled various township offices, 
notably that of Justice of the Peace. At the time of his death he was, 
and had been for several years, an elder, also treasurer, of the Reformed 
Church in Clarkstown, and a member of the Board of Education, Re- 
formed Church of America. He was esteemed "a man of sterling quali- 
ties and wise judgment, and deeply interested in the aflfairs of his church." 
He married in Pearl River, N. Y., August 4, 1875, Sophia Frances, 
daughter of Jacob Cornelius and Elizabeth Priscilla [Ackerman] Haring. 

Children: Mabel, born July 6, 1876 (married P'olhemus) ; Edna, 

born January 4, 1878 ; Carrie, born September 7, 1879 ; William Haring, 
born July 18, 1884. 

ISAAC STRYKER SCHENCK. 
Skillman, N. J. 

Born on his father's farm in Weston, N. J., April 26, 1852, a son of 
Josiah and Catherine Elizabeth [Stryker] Schenck, his youth was spent 
in Millstone, New Brunswick, East Millstone (all in New Jersey) ; Rari- 
tan. 111., 1862-65 ; New Brunswick again, 1865-76. He prepared at Rut- 
gers Prep School; entered Rutgers in 1869; joined Delta Upsilon; was 
a Commencement orator when he graduated, A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876; and 
graduated at New Brunswick Theological Seminary 1876. He was 
licensed to preach by the Classis of New Brunswick, 1876, then for about 
a year he supplied the church at Ramsey, N. J., and was ordained, 1877, 
at Rosendale, N. Y. He was pastor of two churches of the Reformed 
Church of America, one at Rosendale, 1877-80, the other the Second 
Church of Ghent, West Ghent, N. Y., 1880-96; retired in 1896 because 
of illness, and has resided since in or near New Brunswick without charge. 

Two brothers were also graduates of Rutgers and of the New Bruns- 
wick Theological Seminary: Rev. Jacob Wyckoff Schenck (deceased), 
A.B. 1870, A.M. 1873, and Rev. Cornelius Schenck, A.B. 1879, A.M. 
1882, Ph.D. 

He married in New Brunswick, in 1877, Joanna Wilson Ten Eyck. 
Children: Elbert Edgar, born 1879; Eliza Voorhees; Jacob W. ; Israel 
Edgar; Willard Eari. 

JOSEPH WALWORTH SUTPHEN. , 

Died in Brooklyn, N. Y., November 2, 1902. 

His father. Ten Eyck Sutphen, a merchant of New York City, was a 
descendant of Dirck Janse Van Zutphen, who left Zutphen in Gelderland, 
The Netherlands, and settled in New Utrecht, Long Island, N. Y., in 
1651. His mother, Harriet White, was of New England stock, English 
ancestry. A brother, Rev. Paul Frederick Sutphen, is a graduate of 
Rutgers, A.B. 1876, A.M. 1879, D.D. 1893. 



CLASSICAL SECTION— GRADUATES 17 

Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 26, 1853, he resided in that bor- 
ough of New York City all of his life. After preparing in Columbia 
Grammar and Rutgers Prep schools, he entered Rvitgers in 1869; joined 
Chi Phi; was an orator at Sophomore and Junior exhibitions and at 
graduation; was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in Senior year; graduated 
A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876; graduated at Columbia Law School LL.B. 1876; 
was admitted to the New York bar the same year ; formed the firm of 
Sutphen and Lefferts and practiced law in Brooklyn continuously there- 
after. 

He was a member of the Society of the Church of the Pilgrims of 
Brooklyn, of the Congregational Club, the Holland Society and the Long 
Island Historical Society. A Republican, he served as secretary of the 
Brooklyn Civil Service Commission, 1883-85 ; and was political secretary 
for Seth Low during that gentleman's campaign for the first mayoralty 
of Greater New York. 

He married in Evanston, 111., September 21, 1893, Isabella Van Ars- 
dale. Their only child, Frederick Ten Eyck, was born in 1898. 

"He published no books or pamphlets, but articles and very graceful 
poems in Popular Science Monthly, the Sunday School Times, and else- 
where. In a book of collected verse called 'Musical Moments' there is a 
peculiarly graceful poem from his pen, entitled 'Euterpe.' He left at 
his death a collection of poems which he had prepared for publication in 
book form, but they have never been submitted to a publisher. His lit- 
erary taste was delicate and refined. He was a man of the highest ideals 
of honor and integrity, unswerving in loyalty to his friends, generous 
almost to a fault, and he halted at no sacrifice in the performance of what 
he believed to be his duty." —P. F. S. '76. 

ALEXANDER GULICK VAN AKEN. 
Died at Rhode Hall, N. J., March 28, 1913. 

Born January 17, 1852, at Rhode Hall, Middlesex County, N. J., a 
son of John Van Aken, he entered Rutgers 1869; graduated A.B. 1873, 
A.M. 1876; graduated at New Brtmswick Theological Seminary 1876, 
and the Classis of New Brunswick, Reformed Church of America, 
licensed him to preach, but he was never ordained. He engaged in farm- 
ing near his native place, never married, and died suddenly at his brother's 
home. 

IRA VAN ALLEN. 
409 Fayette Park, Syracuse, N. Y, 

A descendant of Peter Van Allen, who was born in Utrecht, Holland, 
1630, and died in Albany, N. Y., 1674, he was born on his father's farm 
in Bethlehem, N. Y., June 1, 1846, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth 



18 CLASS OF 1873 ' 

[Becker] Van Allen and continued to reside in Bethlehem until 1869. 
His early education in the local district school was supplemented by one 
year's attendance at Albany Academy. He was teacher in a district 
school one winter, 1866, and assistant teacher in Albany Classical Insti- 
tute two years, 1867-68. 

He entered Rutgers, 1869; was house teacher in Rutgers Prep School, 
September, 1871, to June, 1873 ; president of the Classical section of 
his class in Jtinior year, also elected to Phi Beta Kappa the same year; 
and delivered the Scientific Oration (Fourth Honor) when he graduated, 
A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876. 

In 1876 he graduated from New Brunswick Theological Seminary; 
was licensed at Albany, N. Y., May 23, by the Classis of Albany, and 
ordained at Schenectady, N. Y., July 5, by the Classis of Schenectady, 
and has continued in the ministry of the Reformed Church of America, 
excepting when ill-health compelled retirement, 1898-1902. His stations 
(all in the State of New York) have been: Pastor, Second Church of 
Rotterdam, June, 1876, to June, 1883 ; supply, Stuyvesant Falls, June to 
September, 1883; pastor, Wynant's Kill, September, 1883, to December, 
1890; pastor, Owasco, December, 1890, to May, 1892; pastor, Mohawk, 
May, 1892, to November, 1898; supply, Owasco Outlet (Sand Beach), 
since May, 1902. 

He is a Republican with Prohibition sympathies ; has resided in Syra- 
cuse since 1898; and has been married twice: First, at New Brunswick, 
N. J., June 14, 1876, to Phebe Harriott Terrill, who died May 13, 1879. 
An infant son, Ralph, also died. Second, at Wynant's Kill, N. Y., August 
25, 1886, to Minnie A., daughter of Thomas and Polly [Raymond] Cole. 
A son, George Raymond, born October 17, 1887, died May 6, 1906. 

SAMUEL OAKLEY VAN DER POEL. 
Died in New York City, April 22, 1912. 

His father was S. Oakley Van der Poel, University N. Y., A.B. 1842, 
A.M. 1845, LL.D. 1877; Jefferson Medical College, M.D. 1845; Surgeon- 
General State of New York, 1857-61 ; Professor of General Pathology 
and Clinical Medicine, Albany Medical College, 1867-72; Health Officer 
Port of New York, 1872-80; Professor of Public Hygiene, University 
New York, 1883-86 ; and Trustee of Rutgers College, 1875-86 ; who was 
born February 22, 1824, and who died in 1886. His mother was Ger- 
trude Lansing Wendell. Two of his brothers were students at Rutgers, 
namely: Herman Wendell Van der Poel, born July 9, 1856; A.B. 1877, 
A.M. 1880; Columbia, LL.B. 1880; died March 16, 1906; and John Van 
der Poel, born February 20, 1858; A.B. 1878, A.M. 1881; Coll. P. & S., 
M.D. 1881. 

He was born in Albany, N. Y., August 7, 1853; attended Albany 
Academy, and Riittrerc Prep School one year, 1868-69; entered Rutgers 



CLASSICAL SECTION— GRADUATES 19 

1869; joined Chi Phi; was a Sophomore orator; a Junior orator; and 
graduated A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876. He graduated M.D. 1876, at College 
P. & S., was an interne in Bellevue Hospital, New York City, eighteen 
months, 1876-77; continued his medical studies in Heidelberg, Germany, 
and Vienna, Austria, another like period; and returning to Albany, 1880, 
was granted an Hon. M.D. by Albany Medical College. 

While practicing medicine in Albany he was Adjunct Professor of 
Theory and Practice of Medicine in Albany Medical College, 1880-82, 
also Attending Physician in St. Peter's and Albany Hospitals; and was 
appointed a medical examiner by the New York Life Insurance Co, in 
1883. Removing to New York City in 1884, he continued his practice, 
specializing in affections of the nose and throat; became Visiting Physi- 
cian at Charity Hospital on Randall's Island; Assistant Surgeon in Man- 
hattan Eye and Ear Hospital; Specialist in Throat Department of Van- 
derbilt Clinic; and, April 13, 1898, Medical Director of the New York 
Life Insurance Co. after successive promotions in the service of that 
corporation. This last-named post he held until his death. 

Dr. Van der Poel was a Republican; a member of Madison Square 
Presbyterian Church; and was appointed a Trustee of Rutgers in 1910. 
His recreations were golf and riding. He was a member of the Medical 
Society of the County of New York; of the Loyal Legion, and of the 
St. Nicholas and Holland Societies; and his clubs included the Century, 
University, New York Yacht, Rockaway Hunt, Garden City Golf, Baltus- 
rol Golf and Sleepy Hollow Golf Clubs. 

Both of his grandfathers, his father and two uncles were practicing 
physicians, as is also his surviving brother. 

He married in Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y., October 20, 1880, Mary 
Louisa, daughter of William H. and Mary T. [Haines] Halstes('d, who 
survives. Children : Samuel Oakley, born August 22, 1881 ; married Mil- 
dred Barclay. William Halsteafld, born April 16, 1885 ; married Gretchen 
Billings. 

JACOB OUTCALT VAN FLEET. 
West Albany, N. Y. 

Son of Bergan Huff and Mary Jane [Sunderland] Van Fleet, born 
in New Brunswick, N. J., October 31, 1847, he continued his residence 
there till 1876, obtaining his early education in the public school, and 
then engaging in the dry goods business for three years in New Bruns- 
wick and two years in New York before taking the college preparatory 
course in Rutgers Prep School, from which he came to Rutgers in 1869. 
He was president of the Classical Section of 73 in Freshman year; 
played on the "Original Football Team" ; was elected to Phi Beta Kappa 
in Senior year, and was an orator at Commencement when he graduated, 
A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876. 



20 CLASS OF 1873 

He graduated at New Brunswick Theological Seminary ; was licensed 
at New Brunswick, and ordained a minister of the Reformed Church of 
America at Kiskatom, N. Y., all in 1876 ; and has been pastor of the fol- 
lowing churches of that denomination : Kiskatom, N. Y., 1876-79 ; Stone 
House Plains (Brookdale, N. J.), 1880-83 ; Montville (Parsippany, N. J.), 
1883-89; Little Falls, N. J., 1889-98; New Baltimore, N. Y., 1898-1911; 
Lisha's Kill (West Albany, N. Y.), since 1911. 

He is a Republican. He married at Neshanic, N. J., July 6, 1876, 
Sarah B., daughter of Samuel Clark and Alice [Beard] Christopher. 
Children: Martha C, born September 10, 1877; Arietta Van Dorn, born 
December 6, 1878; Herbert Clark, born January 15, 1890. 

PETER VAN VOORHEES. 
Died in Camden, N. J., February 25, 1906. 

Son of John Schenck and Sarah Ann [Van Doren] Voorhees, he was 
born June 15, 1852, at Six Mile Rim, N. J. His father, a descendant of 
Steven Coerte Van Voorhees (who came from Holland in 1660 and set- 
tled at Flatlands, Long Island, N. Y.), was born March 18, 1812, and 
was a farmer resident at Elm Ridge, North Brunswick, N. J., who died 
June 19, 1877. Two of his brothers were graduates of Rutgers, viz., 
Abram DeHart Voorhees, farmer, B.Sc. 1869, M.Sc. 1872; born March 
25, 1848; died January 16, 1911. John Schenck Voorhees, lawyer, A.B. 
1876, A.M. 1879; born November 30, 1855; died March 2, 1904. 

After preparation in Rutgers Prep School he entered Rutgers in 
1869; was captain of the crew; and graduated A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876. 

In 1873 he began a residence in Camden, N. J., which was his home 
thereafter. He studied law in the office of Peter Z. Voorhees, with whom 
he subsequently formed a law partnership; was admitted to the bar of 
New Jersey as attorney 1876, as counsellor 1879; was a very successful 
practitioner of the law; a Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals of 
New Jersey, 1900-05 ; a Republican ; a director in various business and 
philanthropic organizations, including Cooper Hospital; and a vestryman 
of St. Paul's Church. His recreations were gunning and golf. 

He married in Camden, April 20, 1881, Louisa Clarke, daughter of 
James B. Dayton, and had by her one son, Dayton, born April 23, 1882, 
who survives. 

HENRY D'ERESBY WESTON. 
Died March 28, 1917. 

Entering Rutgers in 1869, he joined Delta Phi ; was a Sophomore ora- 
tor; a Junior orator; and graduated A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876. While he 
was in college he dwelt in New Brunswick and it is thought that he has 
resided in New York City since graduation. Trow's New York Direc- 



CLASSICAL SECTION— GRADUATES 21 

tory for 1916 gives "Henry Weston, lawyer, 170 Broadway, residence 68 
West 92d St." It is regretted that repeated requests for information have 
ehcited no reply from Mr. Weston. 

Three of his brothers were educated at Rutgers, viz.: Willoughby 
Weston, broker, non-graduate of the class of 1863 ; born August 23, 1845 ; 
died April 26, 1902. Rensselaer Weston, banker and broker; A.B. 1868, 
A.M. 1871. James Cronkhite Weston, mining engineer; A.B. 1870, 
A.M. 1873. 

CHARLES SEYMOUR WRIGHT. 
7922 Eighteenth Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

The Thirtieth Ward of Brooklyn, N. Y., was formerly known as New 
Utrecht. There he was born June 29, 1844, a son of Stedman and Ruth 
[Adams] Wright. His father, a lawyer, was Associate Judge of the 
Court of Oyer and Terminer in Brooklyn for three years, also for many 
years an elder in and treasurer of a Reformed Church of America. 

While resident in New Utrecht he prepared for college at the public 
school and under private tutors ; entered Rutgers in 1869 ; was a member 
of the "Original Football Team"; elected to Phi Beta Kappa in Junior 
year ; and was an orator when he graduated A. B. 1873, A.M. 1876. 

He graduated at New Brunswick Theological Seminary 1876; was 
licensed to preach by the South Classis of Long Island, N. Y., May 29, 
1876; ordained in the Flatbush (N. Y.) Church, June 17, 1877; and has 
retained his clerical connection with the Reformed Church of America, 
which he has served in the following capacities: Missionary in charge 
of Flatbush Mission (now Grace Church), 1877-83; pastor of Central 
Avenue Church, Jersey City, N. J., 1883-1909 ; president of the Particular 
Synod of New Brunswick, 1905 ; member of the Board of Superintend- 
ents of New Brunswick Theological Seminary since about 1898; and he 
retired to private Ufe in 1909. 

He married in Waterbury, Conn., February 15, 1877, Harriet C. 
Upson. Children : Cornelia Gertrude, who married Samuel R. Kelsey, 
now of Waterbury, Conn. ; Ruth Dayton, who married Carson Brevoort 
of Brooklyn, N. Y. 



22 CLASS OF 1873 

INon-Graduates 



MADISON MONROE BALL. 
Berne, N. Y. 



A scion of Revolutionary War stock, his father a farmer, he was born 
in Berne, N. Y., July 12, 1841, a son of John and Maria [Steinburgh] 
Ball, and has continued to live there, excepting one year's residence in 
New York City. He attended school in Berne ; saw three years of mili- 
tary service in the Civil War ; and prepared for college in Knox Seminary 
and Rutgers Prep School. 

He entered Rutgers in 1869; took the classical course through Fresh- 
man and two terms of Sophomore years ; won second prize as Sophomore 
orator; was one of the "Original Football Team"; and pulled bow oar, 
Rutgers vs. Harvard Scientific. He is a member of the Reformed Church 
of America; a Republican with Prohibition sympathies; and his occupa- 
tion has been teaching in public schools. 

He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 25, 1871, Hester S., daughter 
of Francis J. and Rebecca V. Z. [Secor] Shafer. Children : Maud Shafer, 
born May 11, 1873; Blanche Maria, born October 20, 1874; Howard 
Hamilton, born August 18, 1876; Francis J., born May 28, 1878; Ruth, 
born January 3, 1880. 

Rutgers graduates related to Mrs. Ball are : Rev. Theodore Shafer, 
A.B. 1879, A.M. 1882; New Brunswick Theological Seminary 1882; 
Reformed Church of America. Rev. Luman J. Shafer, A.B. 1909, A.M. 
1912; New Brtmswick Theological Seminary 1912; Reformed Church of 
America ; Missionary to Japan. 



JOHN DARCY BENNETT. 
Died 1899. 

When he signed the matriculation book in 1868 he named as his 
guardian "Mrs. Sarah Bennett, Magee's Corner, Seneca Co., N. Y.,'' and 
as tutor Rev. Jacob R. Van Arsdale, of the Reformed Church of Amer- 
ica, Tyre, N. Y. He took the classical course with the class of 1872; 
joined Delta Kappa Epsilon; left college at the end of Freshman year; 
returned in 1870, and continued with the class of 1873 through Sopho- 
more and Junior years. Nothing definite is known of his subsequent 
career. At one time he was reported as resident in Seneca Falls, N. Y. ; 
at another as a missionary in Africa. The Rutgers Alumni Catalogue of 
1909 makes him a clergyman of New Haven, Mich., who died in 1899, 



CLASSICAL SECTION— NON-GRADUATES 23 

FLETCHER CLARK. 
1411 North 18th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

He was born in Portsmouth, N. H., November 23, 1851, the son of 
Rev. Rufus WaiwOTth Clark, D.D., who was born in Newburyport, Wh/eelvvrtgTT^t 
Mass., and was pastor of churches in Portsmouth, Boston, Mass., Brook- 
lyn and Albany, N. Y. His mother, Eliza Walton, was born in Virginia. 

Taken from Portsmouth while an infant, he resided successively in 
Boston, Brooklyn, where he attended the public school, and Albany, where 
he had private tuition. In 1869 he entered the class of 1873 at Rutgers ; 
joined Delta Upsilon; and followed the classical course till the end of 
Junior year, 1872. Then he was in Albany, 1873-75 ; in Philadelphia, 
Pa., doing Y. M. C. A. work, 1875-76 ;j^was ordained to the Congregational m So5*on,, iSfo 
ministry in S©sten, 1877; and was a minister of that Church in Selma, jyCoy^taomeru^ Ji 
Alabama, 1877-78. Returning to Philadelphia, 1878, he graduated from 

the Divinity School, 1885; was rector of a church in Concord, Pa., 1885- pT-oUitoi^nt Kfvi^- 
88; and has resided since 1888 in Philadelphia without pastoral charge. 
He is secretary of the Liberal (religious) Club; enjoys chess-playing, 
and is independent in politics. 

He married in Philadelphia, November 7, 1881, Elizabeth Mattson, a 

lady of Quaker lineage and widow of Nyce. Their only child is 

Lilian Mattson, born November 26, 1884. 

Edward Warren Clark, non-graduate of the class of 1869, clergyman, 
traveler and author, born January 27, 1849, died June 5, 1907, was a 
brother of Fletcher Clark. 

WILLIAM HENRY McKEE. 

Coming from Salem, N. Y., in 1869, he was admitted to the class of 
1873 in Rutgers as a special student omitting mathematics; did not 
matriculate; played on the "Original Football Team"; and attended lec- 
tures with the Classical Section during two terms — possibly three. 

Entries in Rutgers catalogues are: 1909: "Clergyman, LL.D., Detroit, 
Mich." 1916: "Clergyman, LL.D., Corunna, Mich." 

He is reputed to have become a minister of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church. The church of that creed at Corunna is under the charge of the 
General Missionary of the diocese. The secretary to the Bishop of Michi- 
gan reports regarding Mr. McKee (November 10, 1916) : "He is 
no longer listed as a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church in this 
country, and we have no idea of his present whereabouts or any informa- 
tion concerning his past history." 

CHARLES HOWARD MILLSPAUGH. 
105 Essex Avenue, Bloomfield, N. J. 

Son of Alexander Charles and Sarah Ann [Banick] Millspaugh, he 
was born in Middletown, N. J., March 25, 1853. His father was a gradu- 



24 CLASS OF 1873 

ate of Rutgers, A.B. 1838, A.M. 1841 ; New Brunswick Theological Sem- 
inary 1841 ; and a clergyman of the Reformed Church of America, who 
died December 3, 1885. 

After removing to Feura Bush, N. Y., he attended Riverside Seminary, 
Germantown, N. Y., 1867-68; then Rutgers Prep School, 1868-69; en- 
tered the classical course at Rutgers, 1869 ; was a member of Delta Kappa 
Epsilon; and left college at the end of Junior year, 1872. He is a member 
of the Reformed Church of America ; a Democrat ; was a farmer in Wick- 
atunk, N. J., 1876-1901; a produce commission merchant, 1901-10; has 
been in the real estate business since 1910; resided in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
1901-16, and is now resident in Bloomfield, N. J. 

He married in Marlboro, N. J., September 15, 1875, Jane Elizabeth 
Conover. Children : La Fayette C, born August 23, 1876 ; Josephine S., 
born November 8, 1878 ; Ellen C, born August 10, 1881 ; Charles E., born 
April 17, 1886. 

JOHN HIRAM CONDICT NEVIUS. 

Office, 217 East 38th Street, New York City. 

Residence, Rochester, Mass. 

Son of Elbert and Maria Louisa [Condict] Nevius, he was born May 
30, 1850, in Stuyvesant, N. Y., and continued his residence there till 1871. 
His father was a graduate of Rutgers, A.B. 1830, A.M. 1834; New Bruns- 
wick Theological Seminary, 1834; a clergyman of the Reformed Church 
of America, and missionary to Borneo, 1836-44, who died September 29, 
1897. His brother, Benjamin Chalmers Nevius, graduated at Rutgers, 
A.B. 1867, A.M. 1870. 

After preparation in Rutgers Prep School he entered Rutgers, 1869; 
joined Delta Upsilon, and attended lectures in the classical course during 
Freshman year only. He was in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn., 1871 ; 
Meriden, Conn., 1872-73; New York City, 1874-1906; and has resided in 
Rochester, Mass., since 1906. From 1872 till 1886 he was a salesman, 
and has been a manufacturer and merchant since. He is a member of 
Madison Square Presbyterian Church, New York City; is an Independ- 
ent in politics ; was vice-president of Good Government Clubs, New York 
City, about 1892; and has contributed articles on political topics to the 
public press, notably the New York Times and Evening Post. 

He married in Fall River, Mass., September 6, 1882, Louisa Holmes, 
daughter of Daniel and Emma [Holmes] Stillwell. Children: Stillwell, 
born July 23, 1883; Louise Condict, born February 10, 1886; Richmond, 
born October 10, 1887 ; Marian Holmes, born January 24, 1892 ; John Liv- 
ingstong-born December 28, 1896. 

WILLIAM HENRY PAGE. 
Supposedly a son of Edward Page, he entered the classical course at 
Rutgers, 1869; joined Delta Upsilon, and left college 1871, at the end of 



CLASSICAL SECTION— NON-GRADUATES 25 

Sophomore year. He is known to have become an actor, but no details of 
his career have been discovered by the writer. 

CHARLES WADSWORTH PITCHER. 
CloverhiU, N. J. 

Son of Rev. William and Jane Elizabeth [Wadsworth] Pitcher, he 
was born in Bought, N. Y., March 2, 1849. His father, descended from 
a military officer of the War for Independence, was educated at Williams 
College and Princeton Theological Seminary, and his mother was a sister 
of Rev. Charles Wadsworth, D.D., of Philadelphia, Pa. 

Before coming to college he resided in South Branch, N. J., later in 
New York City, and his experience included a clerkship in a New York 
dry goods shop, one year in Marshall Institute, one year in Somerville 
Institute, and two years in Rutgers Prep School. Entering Rutgers in 
1869, he followed the classical course (omitting mathematics), for four 
years with the class of 1873, and attended New Brunswick Theological 
Seminary, 1873-75. 

He was licensed to preach by the Newark Association of Congrega- 
tional Churches at Orange Valley, N. J., May 18, 1875, and ordained at 
Randolph, N. Y., January 26, 1876, by the Congregationalist Council. He 
has been very successful in evangelistic work and has been pastor of the 
following churches : Congregational, Randolph, N. Y., 1876-82 ; Mount 
Pleasant, Reformed Church of America, Stanton, N. J., 1882-87; Kirk- 
patrick Memorial, Presbyterian, Ringoes, N. J., 1887-91 ; Reformed 
Church of America, Middleburgh, N. Y., 1891-1908; Reformed Church of 
America, CloverhiU, N. J., since 1908. 

He is an Independent Democrat and writes for the public press occa- 
sionally. 

The following Rutgers graduates are connections by blood or mar- 
riage : John Guernsey Van Slyke, A.B. 1866, A.M. 1869, D.D. 1881, cler- 
gyman, deceased; George Sharp Knickerbocker, A.B. 1873, A.M. 1876, 
Coll. P. & S., M.D. 1876; Herman Hegeman, A.B. 1879, A.M. 1882, N. B. 
Theo. Sem. 1882, clergyman; Edward Burnett Voorhees, A.B. 1881, A.M. 
1884, Univ. Vermont D.Sc. 1900, Professor of Agriculture Rutgers, de- 
ceased; Theodore Amerman Beekman, A.B. 1882, clergyman; Philip 
Wilson Pitcher, A.B. 1882, missionary to China, deceased; Warren Clark 
Van Slyke, A.B. 1895, lawyer. 

He married at South Branch, N. J., July 14, 1875, Annie M., daughter 
of Abram Amerman of that place. Their children are : Le Roy, born in 
1876, and Annie Lee, bom October 6, 1880. 

FITZ RANDOLPH STEWART. 

After preparation in Rutgers Prep School he entered the classical 
course at Rutgers, 1869, naming Samuel B. Stewart of Brooklyn, N. Y., 



26 CLASS OF 1873 

as guardian, and continued with the class of 1873 until the end of the 
first term, Sophomore year, 1870. Rutgers Alumni catalogues give his 
residence as Frederic, Md. A rumor current at the time of his death, 
which occurred July 4, 1871, attributed it to the bursting of a cannon 
while in the discharge of his duty as an enlisted man in U. S. service. A 
recent search has failed to discover his name on the rolls of either Army, 
Navy or Marine Corps. 

DANIEL GILBERT VAN MATER. 
Died in Santa Fe, N. M., February 11, 1895. 

His father was Gilbert H. Van Mater, farmer and merchant, of Holm- 
del, N. J., and his mother's maiden name was Sarah Holmes. Among 
Rutgers alumni he had the following relations : Brother, William Augus- 
tus Van Mater, B.Sc. 1869, M.Sc. 1872, deceased; cousin, Holmes Van 
Mater Dennis, B.Sc. 1869, M.Sc. 1872; cousin, Joseph Appleton Van 
Mater, A.B. 1880, A.M. 1883, E.M. 1911; second cousin. Holmes V. M. 
Dennis, Jr., A.B. 1894, A.M. 1899; N. Y. Law School, LL.B. 1896. 

Born in Holmdel, June 27, 1852, he received his early education 
there; prepared for college at Mattawan Institute; entered Rutgers in 
1869, taking the classical course; joined Delta Kappa Epsilon; and left 
college at the end of Freshman year. He graduated M.D. 1875 at Belle- 
vue Hospital Medical College, New York City, and then began the prac- 
tice of medicine at Columbus, N. J., where he resided thereafter. He 
was president of the Burlington County Medical Society; a member of 
the Reformed Church of America until 1876, when he became a Presby- 
terian ; and he was a Republican. 

He married at Columbus, January 13, 1881, Susan Elizabeth, daughter 
of Robert and Caroline [Bullock] Aaronson. Children: Ethel, born April 
30, 1883 ; Robert A., born March 9, 1887. 

GEORGE SIDNEY WILLITS. 
Died at Woodbury, N. J., May 4, 1917. 

From the founding of the sect in the seventeenth century the ancestors 
of both his parents have been members of the Society of Friends. His 
father, George S. Willits, was a "newspaper man" of Philadelphia and a 
Civil War veteran of the U. S. Army. His mother's name was Elizabeth 
Githens. 

Born in Philadelphia, Pa., February 21, 1853, he attended the public 
schools of that city till 1867; Rittenhouse Preparatory Academy, 1867- 
69; entered the classical section of the Freshman class at Rutgers in 1869; 
was one of the "Original Football Team" ; and left college in 1871, during 
first term. Junior year. 

He was appointed to the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., 



CLASSICAL SECTION— TRANSFERS 2f 

October 1, 1873; was captain of his class boat-crew in 1874; graduated 
1875 ; and has risen through the various ranks of the naval service until 
appointed Rear Admiral, March 26, 1913. He was retired for age, Feb- 
ruary 21, 1915, credited with 15 years, 8 months, sea service, and 22 
years, 3 months, of shore duty. 

A paper on "Steel Castings," published in the Journal of the Society 
of Naval Engineers, is from his pen. His church connection has been 
with the Reformed Church of America, afterward with the Presbyterian 
Church ; he is a Republican, and enjoys rowing, baseball and motoring. 
He has resided in Boston, Mass., 1877-78; since then successively in 
Washington, D. C, Brooklyn, N. Y., Philadelphia, Pa., Bremerton, Wash., 
and since 1909 again in Philadelphia. 

He married in Elizabeth, N. J., August 3, 1876, Sylvia B., daughter of 
Oliver B. and Sarah Gaston. Children: Charles C, born 1878; Grace G., 
born 1880; Alfred S., born 1882; Jessie A., born 1886; Oliver C, born 
1890. 



Transfers 

In addition to the foregoing the two next following were affiliated 
with the Classical Section of the class of 1873 during a part of their 
course, but are now recognized as members of later classes. 

ALBERT DOD MINOR. 
Died at Mohawk, N. Y., August 11, 1910. 

Born at Centreville, Mich., January 12, 1850, a son of Rev. John 
Minor (Rutgers, A.B. 1842, A.M. 1845), he declared himself self-pre- 
pared when he entered the Freshman class at Rutgers in 1869, taking the 
classical course. He was Junior orator in 1872 and left college directly 
after. Returning in 1875, he graduated A.B. 1876, A.M. 1879. He was 
a clergyman of the Reformed Church of America, a teacher, and Chap- 
lain of the 203d Regt., N. Y. Volunteers, during the Spanish War, 1898- 
99. (For fuller details consult the "History of the Class of 1876.") 

GARRETT SMOCK JONES. 
Rahway, N. J. 

Born at Holmdel, N. J., May 26, 1851, a son of Samuel W. Jones, he 
entered the Freshman class at Rutgers in 1869, taking the classical course; 
joined Delta Kappa Epsilon ; and left college at the end of Freshman 
year. Returning in 1871, he was a member of the class of 1874 through- 
out Sophomore year. He is cashier of the National Bank of Rahway. 
(For fuller details consult the "History of the Class of 1874.") 



28 CLASS OF 1873 

Scientific Section 

— o 

Graduates 

WILLIAM ALLEN CHAPMAN. 

Residence, 11 West Bridge Street, Saugerties, N. Y. 

Office, 606 McGill Biulding, Montreal, P. Q. 

In the paternal line one-eighth French, via Guadeloupe, W. I., through 
his mother one-quarter Scotch, and for the rest descended from the earli- 
est EngUsh colonists in New England, he was born October 16, 1852, at 
Canajoharie, N. Y., where his father was then pastor of the local Re- 
formed Dutch Church. His father, Nathan Farnham Chapman, son of 
Nathan and Lucretia [Magne] Chapman, was born in Westbrook, Conn., 
August 17, 1811, a descendant from Capt. Robert Chapman, settler at 
Saybrook, Conn., in 1635, and from other very early colonists, notably 
Capt. George Denison and Tliomas Stanton of Stonington, Conn. ; Thomas 
Bliss, a founder of Hartford, Conn. ; John Howland, who came to Ply- 
mouth, Mass., in 1620, and Capt. John Gorham of Barnstable, Mass., who 
died in the Narraganset war. After attendance at Lafayette College and 
New York University, Nathan Farnham Chapman was in residence at 
Rutgers, 1840-43, A.B. 1844; New Brunswick Theological Seminary, 
1843-46; was a minister of the Reformed Church of America; and died 
in Saugerties, N. Y., February 27, 1893. His mother, Mary Doane, born 
in New York City, January 10, 1817, a daughter of John and Mary 
[Taylor] Doane, was a descendant of Deacon John Doane, 1630; Elder 
William Brewster, 1620; and Governor Thomas Prence, 1621; all of 
Plymouth Colony. She died in Saugerties, January 11, 1888. 

Removing from Canajoharie in 1854, his father was pastor of the 
church at PlatteKill, 1854-64, and of the church at Katsbaan, 1864-73 
(both situate in the town of Saugerties, Ulster County, N. Y.), and 
W. A. C. remained a member of the parental household till 1873, receiv- 
ing home tuition till 1864 ; attended the public school at Katsbaan, 1864- 
66; and prepared for college, 1866-70, in a private school at Maiden, 
N. Y., conducted by Prof. D. A. Wolf, graduate of the University of 
Copenhagen, Denmark. 

He entered Rutgers 1870; joined Delta Kappa Epsilon; was senior 
editor of The Targum in second term, 1873; was elected to Phi Beta 
Kappa, and was president of the Scientific Section of his class in Senior 
year; and graduated B.Sc. 1873, M.Sc. 1876. 

Since graduation he has been engaged in civil and mechanical engi- 
neering and alHed pursuits ; e. g. : field work. New Jersey Geological Sur- 
vey, 1873 ; land surveying, Morristown, N. J., 1873-75 ; water-works con- 
struction, Baltimore, Md., 1875-81 ; railroad construction, Pennsylvania 



SCIENTIFIC SECTION— GRADUATES 29 

Railroad (Baltimore), 1881-82; and Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Western 
Railroad (Dunkirk, N. Y.), 1881. He was engineer for Ramapo Iron 
Works (Hillburn, N. Y.), 1883-99; agent of Continuous Rail Joint Co. 
of America, at Boston, Mass., 1900-05 ; agent of The Rail Joint Co., at 
Troy, N. Y., 1905-15 ; also manager of The Rail Joint Co. of Canada, 
Limited, in Montreal, P. Q., since 1905. He has maintained a legal resi- 
dence in Saugerties since 1900, with domicile in Boston, 1900-05 ; Albany, 
N. Y., 1906-15; and since 1915 in Montreal. He is a member of The 
Engineers' Club, University Club, and Sons of the Revolution (all of 
New York City), and of the Montreal Board of Trade ; enjoys a game of 
billiards, also out-of-door life, especially camping and angling; is inde- 
pendent politically (though far from that condition financially) ; is unmar- 
ried; and in forty-four years of a busy life since graduation has done 
nothing notable. 

A nephew, William Addison Brainard, was a non-graduate member 
of the class of 1916. 

His great-grandfather, Lieut. Lebbeus Chapman, of Saybrook, Conn., 
was a soldier in our war for independence. 

OSWALD HALDANE. 
Died December 27, 1914. 

Son of John Hustis and Matilda [Hasbrouck] Haldane, he was born 
in New York City, May 24, 1850. His father, the senior partner in the 
firm of Haldane & Co. of New York, foreign agents and merchants in the 
iron trade, was of the ancient Scottish family of Haldane of Gleneagles ; 
and his mother was of the Hasbrouck family. Huguenot patentees of 
New Paltz, N. Y., and a descendant from divers early Dutch colonists 
in Manhattan and Long Island, notably from Capt.-Lieut. Nicasius de 
Sille, a councillor of New Amsterdam. 

Before entering college he resided in the parental home in Cold 
Spring, N. Y., receiving his primary education there. Then he attended 
successively the Military Academy in Peekskill, N. Y., a school in Dan- 
bury, Conn., and the Charlier Institute, a French school in New York 
City. He entered Rutgers January 6, 1871 ; was an associate editor of 
The Targum in third term, 1871-72; and graduated B.Sc. 1873, M.Sc. 
1876. 

Thereafter he resided in New York City ; never married ; and died in 
Massachusetts after a lingering illness which had impeded his activities 
for many years. He attended the Protestant Episcopal Church; was a 
Democrat; and delighted in out-of-door life, particularly upon the water. 
He had studied architecture; was a lover of art; a fine French scholar; 
a reader of Latin and Italian ; was interested in history and genealogy ; 
and was the author of "The Descendants of Colonel Henry Filkin of 
Flatbush, Long Island," printed in 1878 by the Evening Post Steam Press 
and distributed privately. 



30 CLASS OF 1873 

JAMES THOMAS LILLIS. 
208 Palisade Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. 

Born in West New York, N. J., March 6, 1853, the son of Martin 
LilHs, carter, and Catharine McCarthy, his wife, prior to 1870 he lived 
in West New York first and then in that part of Jersey City which was 
called Hudson City until that year. He obtained his primary education 
in St. Joseph's R. C. Parochial School from about 1860 till 1863, and a 
private school, 1863-65 ; and attended Public School No. 1 and the High 
School of Hudson City, 1866-70. 

He entered Rutgers in 1870; was catcher and captain of the baseball 
nine; graduated B.Sc. 1873, M.Sc. 1876; was secretary of the Demo- 
cratic Committee of Hudson County from about 1888 to 1893 ; surrogate 
in that county, November 8, 1896, to November 8, 1906; has resided in 
Jersey City continuously since graduation; is a member of St. Joseph's 
R. C. Church ; and still enjoys the spectacle of a good game of baseball. 

He married in New York City, June 3, 1877, Alice, daughter of 
Phelim and Ann Dooley. They have children : Martin, born October 20, 
1879 ; James, born April 3, 1883 ; John E., born May 8, 1886 ; Ann A., 
born February 18, 1891. 

HENRY AUGUSTUS NEILSON. 
Died in New Brunswick, N. J., May 6, 1912. 

Son of John C. and Helena [Neilson] Neilson; grandson of John 
Neilson, an eminent M.D. ; great-grandson of Brigadier General John 
Neilson of New Brunswick, N. J., a soldier in our war for independence ; 
he was born June 9, 1854, in New York City ; resided there for a time in 
childhood and afterward continuously in New Brunswick. After prep- 
aration in Rutgers Prep School he entered Rutgers, 1870; joined Delta 
Phi ; and was an orator at Commencement when he graduated B.Sc. 1873, 
M.Sc. 1876. 

Following a post-graduate course in chemistry at Rutgers, he was 
associated with Schiefflin & Co. of New York City; later with Janeway 
& Carpender of New Brunswick ; and finally for many years was a mem- 
ber of the firm of Thomas Strahan & Co. of Chelsea, Mass., manufac- 
turers of wall paper, and manager of their New York office. 

He was a Republican ; an alderman, 1894-95 ; a director of the New 
Brunswick Savings Institution; a vestryman of Christ Church (Protestant 
Episcopal) ; a member of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New 
York; also a member and one-time president of the Union Club of New 
Brunswick. Always an enthusiastically loyal alumnus, he acted as chief 
inspector of election of alumni trustees for several years, and at the time 
of his death was president of the Association of the Alumni of Rutgers 
College, and one of the executive committee of the Rutgers Club of New 
Brunswick. 



SCIENTIFIC SECTION— GRADUATES 31 

James Neilson, Rutgers, A.B. 1866, A.M. 1869; Hamilton, LL.B. 
1869 ; Trustee of Rutgers since 1886 ; is a relative. 

He married in New Brunswick, June 1, 1881, Joanna, daughter of 
Robert H. Neilson. She survives. Their children are : Robert Hude, born 
June 11, 1882; Rutgers, A.B. 1903; Harvard, LL.B. 1906. Mary, born 
September 15, 1883; married H. B. Carpender of New Brunswick, N. J. 
Helena Bleecker, born October 12, 1885 ; married Lieut. Arthur S. Car- 
pender, U. S. N. Katherine McClelland, born February 17, 1892; mar- 
ried Laurance P. Runyon of New Brunswick; Rutgers, B.Sc. 1899, M.Sc. 
1903 ; Columbia, M.D. 1903. 

MYRON RANDALL CHAUNCEY PECK. 
Died in Hartford, Conn., March 29, 1890. 

Son of Samuel S. and Ehza [McCullom] Peck, he was born October 
— (or November — ), 1849, in Albany, N. Y. His father, a wholesale 
grocer in Albany, died in 1852, and the son continuing his residence 
there received his early education under private tuition. After gradu- 
ating at the Experimental Department of the State Normal College in 
Albany, he entered Rutgers, 1870; joined Chi Phi; was an editor of The 
Scarlet Letter, 1873 ; and graduated B.Sc. 1873, M.Sc. 1876. He attended 
Albany Medical College one year, 1873-74 ; then the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, New York City, where he graduated M.D. 1876; and con- 
tinued his medical studies in Heidelberg, Germany, and Vienna, Austria, 
1877-80. He practiced medicine in Albany and was an instructor in 
Albany Medical College, 1880-81 ; was attached to New York State Emi- 
grant Asylum, 1882-85, first as "colleague to the physician-in-chief,'' later 
as "physician-in-charge," stationed on Ward's Island, New York; then 
resumed private practice in New York City till about 1888, when he went 
to Hartford, Conn., to assume the duties of a connection with The Trav- 
elers' Insurance Co. He was a Republican and never married. 

CLARENCE PETERS. 
117 CHnton Avenue, Newark, N. J. 

Son of George M. and Sarah Minerva [Booth] Peters, he was born 
March 4, 1854, in Newark, N. J., where he has continued his residence. 
His father was a manufacturer in Newark, an alderman, trustee of the 
City Home, and member of Essex County Road Board. After prepara- 
tion in Rutgers Prep School he entered Rutgers, 1870; joined Chi Phi; 
and graduated B.Sc. 1873, M.Sc. 1876. He is a manufacturer, assistant 
treasurer of Peters & Calhoun Co., president of Peters Harness & Sad- 
dlery Co. of Newark and New York ; is a member of the Protestant Epis- 
copal Church; a Democrat; unmarried; and enjoys bicycHng. Two 
brothers are alumni of Rutgers, namely : Frank Moyer Peters of the 
class of 1875, and Harry Mortimer Peters, A.B. 1883, A.M. 1886; Colum- 
bia, LL.B. 1885. 



32 CLASS OF 1873 

WILLIAM PICARD STEPHENS. 
742 Avenue A, Bayonne, N. J. 

Son of Henry Louis (artist) and Charlotte Ann [Wevill] Stephens, he 
was born in Philadelphia, Pa., August 5, 1854, and resided there till 1859. 
Subsequent residences have been : Rahway, N. J.. 1859-62 ; Elizabeth, N. 
J., 1862-63 ; Rahway, 1863-81 ; West Brighton, N. Y., 1881-86, and Bay- 
onne, N. J., since 1886. 

He prepared in private schools in Rahway and Elizabeth, 1863-68, and 
for one year, 1869-70, in Rutgers Prep School; entered Rutgers, 1870; 
joined Alpha Sigma Chi (now merged in Beta Theta Pi) ; and he gradu- 
ated B.Sc. 1873, M.Sc. 1876. 

He is independent in politics and contributes to the press articles on 
canoeing, yachting, boat-building and similar topics. 

He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 27, 1886, Ellen M., daughter 
of Gordon H. and Katherine A. Pike. Children : Kenneth, born October 
16, 1887; Harold and Marjorie, born December 6, 1888 (died in in- 
fancy) ; Annie, born February 8, 1890 (died in infancy) ; Herbert, born 
March 14, 1891; Edith Hazel, born October 11, 1894; Eleanor, born 
March 13, 1899. 

Autobiography. 

"Shortly before graduation my friend, the late Edward F. Brooks, of 
the class of 1872, obtained a position for me in the engineering staff of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad, where I worked with him under our chief, 
[the late] F. M. Vanderoef, of the class of 1868, in the first steps of the 
vast scheme of improvement since realized by this great organization. 
The great panic that came but three months later put a sudden stop to 
this work. . . . For the next three years I was employed more or less 
irregularly as the work was restmied and then stopped. As my taste was 
for marine work, in either ship or engine building, and the railroad out- 
look was discouraging, I entered the Roach Ship Yard, at Chester, Pa., 
working for two years [1878-79] in the erecting gang, installing the en- 
gines aboard ship. This experience was similar to the previous one. The 
effects of the panic were still felt as late as 1879, ship building was in a 
depressed condition, and there were long periods of idleness. My chief 
diversion in my college days was boat building, and in the frequent inter- 
vals when work was slack on the railroad or in the shipyard, I amused 
myself by building canoes and making solitary cruises. ... As I im- 
proved in the self-taught art of canoe building and sold each boat after 
using her, I found a growing demand for the decked canoe, and gradually 
drifted into designing and building of canoes and later of the small cruis- 
ing cutters which, like the canoes, were introduced from England 

As my interest was now centered on canoeing and yachting, in 1883-84 I 
gave up building to take the editorship of the Yachting and Canoeing 



SCIENTIFIC SECTION— GRADUATES 33 

Department of The Forest and Stream, then and for many years after 
the leading American authority on these sports. In 1900 I left this paper 
to take a similar position on one of the then new automobile papers [The 
Motor Review] starting a department devoted to the gasoline marine en- 
gine and power yachting. This led in turn to a study of the automobile, 
and for a time the editorship of The Automobile, but the habit of a life- 
time is hard to overcome, and I drifted back into yachting, my work since 
1904 being the editorship of Lloyds' Register of American Yachts. 
While my achievements have been but small and insignificant compared 
with men like Brooks and Loree who started on the same course at about 
the same time, I hope that my work has accomplished something for the 
technical advancement of yachting and the maintenance of a high stand- 
ard of fair play and good feeling in this noble sport." — Abridged from an 
article in Rutgers Alumni Quarterly, October, 1916. 

CHARLES FREDERICK STILLMAN. 
Died in Plainfield, N. J., April 30, 1892. 

For his ancestry consult the record of his elder brother and classmate, 
Thomas Bliss Stillman. Other Rutgers alumni of his family were his 
younger brother, William Maxson Stillman, B.Sc. 1877, M.Sc. 1880, 
Columbia LL.B. 1879; and his nephew, Albert Leeds Stillman, A.B., 
1905, M.Sc. 1910, Columbia, E.M. 1909. 

He was born July 21, 1854, in Plainfield, N. J. ; resided there till 1879 ; 
then removed to New York City, and thence in 1889 to Chicago, 111. He 
attended the high school in Plainfield; entered Rutgers, 1870; joined 
Delta Kappa Epsilon; was an associate editor of The Tar gum in first 
term of Senior year ; also in that year was elected to Phi Beta Kappa ; and 
was a Commencement orator when he graduated B.Sc. 1873, M.Sc. 1876. 
He also graduated M.D. 1877, at College of P. and S., New York City. 

Very early in his career he became a highly esteemed and skillful phy- 
sician, "a man of brilliant reputation as an orthopedic surgeon, whose 
writings on that subject were accepted as standard works by the medical 
profession'' ; an inventor of mechanical appliances, "especially designed to 
relieve suffering from fractured limbs and hip diseases" ; and an expert in 
examination for life insurance. A prolific writer on professional topics, 
his published books include about twenty titles and his pamphlets and 
magazine articles are exceedingly numerous. Athletic in build, handsome, 
of distinguished carriage, always courteous, he was a well known man 
about town and a social favorite. Of clubs in New York City he be- 
longed to the Lotus, Union League, Kennel, New York Yacht, and 
Lambs. He was a member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church ; a Repub- 
lican; enjoyed all manner of athletic sports and was a lover of dogs and 
horses. 

He married at Mystic, Conn., March 28, 1878, Harriet E. Greenman. 



34 CLASS OF 1873 

They had one son, Charles Kirtland Stillman, M.D., born July — , 1879. 

His professional engagements and associations : City Physician, Plain- 
field, N. J., 1877-79; Adjunct Professor Orthopedic Surgery, New York 
Polyclinic Institute, 1882-83; Professor Orthopedic Surgery, Women's 
Medical College Infirmary, New York; Orthopedic Surgeon, New York 
Infant Asylum; Lecturer on Physical Examination for Life Insurance, 
University of Vermont; Medical Examiner, Travelers' Ins. Co. of Hart- 
ford, Conn, (about 1887) ; Medical Examiner, General Agency, Mutual 
Life Ins. Co., New York; Professor Orthopedic Surgery, Chicago Poly- 
clinic ; Permanent Member, American Medical Association ; Member 
American Orthopedic Association ; MiCmber New York County Medico- 
Legal Society; Member New York Coimty Medical Society; Fellow, 
Chicago Academy of Medicine. 

His most important books : "A Manual of Physical Diagnosis" ; "A 
New System of Surgical Mechanics"; "A Practitioner's Mcinual of Or- 
thopedic Surgery" ; "The Life Insurance Examiner" ; "A Practical Re- 
sume of Modern Methods Employed in the Treatment of Chronic Articu- 
lar Ostitis of the Hip," 1891. 

THOMAS BLISS STILLMAN. 
Died in Jersey City, N. J., Augu.st 10, 1915. 

He was the eldest son of Charles Henry and Mary Elizabeth [Starr] 
Stillman ; was bom May 24, 1852, in Plainfield, N. J. ; and was given the 
name of a progenitor, Thomas Bliss, who was one of the founders of 
Hartford, Conn., 1635. He dwelt in Plainfield till 1874. His father, 
born in Schenectady, N. Y., January 25, 1817, the son of Joseph Still- 
man (a soldier of the War of 1812), and Eliza Ward Maxson, was a 
graduate of Union ; a practicing physician ; Mayor and President of the 
Board of Education in Plainfield; and sent three sons to Rutgers. The 
others were: Charles Frederick, B.Sc. 1873, M.Sc. 1876, M.D. (Coll. P. 
& S.) 1877; and William Maxson, B.Sc. 1877, M.Sc. 1880, LL.B. 
(Columbia) 1879. 

His mother, born September 7, 1821, was of the eighth generation in 
. descent from Dr. Comfort Starr, a settler in Boston, Mass., 1635 ; also of 
the eighth generation from Elder William Brewster of "Mayflower" 
fame. Her great-grandfather. Sergeant Vine Starr, and her grandfather, 
Sergeant Jesse Starr (both of Groton, Conn.), served in the War of the 
Revolution, and her father, Albertus, in the War of 1812. 

He acquired his early education in Hamilton, N. Y., and in Alfred 
Academy (now University), Alfred, N. Y. ; entered Rutgers 1870; joined 
Delta Kappa Epsilon ; in 1873 was an editor of The Scarlet Letter, was 
elected to Phi Beta Kappa, was awarded the Cook Prize in Mineralogy, 
also the Murray Prize for second Best Thesis, and graduated B.Sc. ; then 
took a post-graduate course in chemistry for one year and was made 



[Kindly paste this in your copy of the "Chronicles of the Class of 
1873 — Rutgers College" at page 35, in correction of lines 19-24 as 
printed originally.] 

THOMAS BLISS STILLMAN. 

His professional engagements and associations : 
Stevens Institute of Technology : 

Instructor in Chemistry, 1874-75 and 1881-85 ; 

Professor of Analytical Chemistry, 1885-1903; 

Professor of Engineering Chemistry, 1903-1909; 
City Chemist of Bayonne, N. J. ; City Chemist of Jersey City ; 
Chemist of Medical Milk Commission, Newark, N. J. ; 
Analytical Chemist (commercial) in New York City, 1877-1915. 



SCIENTIFIC SECTION— GRADUATES 35 

M.Sc. 1876. After teaching chemistry in Stevens Institute of Technology, 
1874-75, he studied two years in the Fresenius Chemische Laboratorium 
at Wiesbaden, Germany, receiving his diploma in 1877, and from 1881 
till 1909 was an active member of the faculty of Stevens, which gave him 
the degree of Ph.D. in 1883. He also conducted a business as analytical 
chemist in New York City 1877-1915. He resided in Hoboken 1877- 
1913, and in jersey City 1913-15 ; and was a member of the N. Y. Chap- 
ter of Mayflower Descendants, the Sons of the Revolution in the State of 
New York, and the Order of Washington. A foremost chemist of his 
time, he contributed to various technical periodicals many monographs on 
chemical topics, the most valuable being incorporated later in two books 
published by the Chemical Publishing Co., viz., "Engineering Chemistry," 
editions of 1900, 1905, 1910; and "Examination of Lubricating Oils,'' 
1912. 

He married in Baltimore, Md., November 3, 1881, Emma Louise 
Pomplitz, who survives. Children : Albert Leeds, born June 14, 1883, 
Rutgers A.B. 1905, M.Sc. 1910; Columbia, E.M. 1909; Anita Mary, born 
in 1887; Thomas Bliss, born in 1890. 

His professional engagements and associations r Stevens Institute of 
Technology: Instructor in Chemistry, 1874-75 and 1881-85; Professor 
Society; American Institute of Mining Engineers; Societe Chimique de 
1903-1909. City Chemist of Bayonne, N. J.; City Chemist of Jersey 
City ;. Chemist of Medical Milk Commission, Newark, N. J.; Analytical 
Chemist (commercial) in New York City, 1877-1915. 

Member: American Electro-Chemical Society; American Chemical 
Society ; American Institute of Mining Engineers ; Societe Chimique de 
Paris; International Association for Testing Materials; Corresponding 
Member: Edinburgh Society of Arts and Science; Deutsche Chemische 
Gesellschaf t ; Fellow : Society of Chemical Industry of London. 

CHARLES TOWNSEND VAN SANTVOORD. 
Died in New York City, July 5, 1895. 

Only son of Alfred and Anna Margaret [Townsend] Van Santvoord, 
he was born March 16, 1854, in Albany, N. Y. ; resided there before en- 
tering college; attended local schools and prepared in a boarding school 
at Lake Mohegan, N. Y. His father was the founder and president of 
the Hudson River Day Line, operating passenger steamers on that 
stream. He entered Rutgers 1870; joined Delta Phi; was president of 
the Scientific Section of his class 1871-72; was an orator at Commence- 
ment when he graduated B..Sc. 1873, M.Sc. 1876; and was a Trustee of 
Rutgers, 1893-95. After graduation he entered the service of his father's 
company, became the treasurer and tlie "successful and most diligent gen- 
eral manager of a unique steamboat organization." One winter during 



36 CLASS OF 1873 

suspended navigation he attended lectures at a medical college in New 
York. His residence in that city was at 38 West 39th street, and there 
he succumbed to a surgical operation for appendicitis. He was fond of 
boating, riding and shooting; never married; and was a member of the 
University, Union, Seawanhaka Yacht, and New York Yacht Clubs. 

ELBRIDGE VANSYCKEL. 
Bound Brook, N. J. 

His father, Elbridge Vansyckel, once a commission merchant in New 
York City, later a farmer in Bound Brook, N. J., who died in 1901, was 
of the fourth generation from Reinier Van Sickelen, settler, and his an- 
cestry included also "Major Phillips, one of the earliest settlers of 
Maine ; Thomas Wame, one of the twenty-four Proprietors of New Jer- 
sey ; Thomas Lord, a founder of the Hartford colony ; and Thomas Car- 
hart, an associate of Dongan, first English governor of New York.'' His 
mother, Bethany Stewart Dunham, who died in 1917, was a descendant 
of "Rev. Edmund Dunham and his son. Rev. Jonathan, founders of 
Seventh Day Baptists churches in New Jersey." His younger brother. 
Rev. Nehemiah Dunham Vansyckel, Rutgers A.M. 1885, General Theo- 
logical Seminary B.D. 1893, Professor of Theology, was in the class of 
1882 at Rutgers. 

He was born in Jersey City, N. J., March 10, 1852; removed to 
Bound Brook; received primary education from a family governess; at- 
tended Villeplait's French School, Plainfield, N. J., 1865-66 ; The Bessac 
French School, Bound Brook, 1866-68; and fitted for college at Blair 
Academy, Blairstown, N. J., 1868-69. 

He entered Rutgers 1870; was a member of Alpha Sigma Chi (now 
merged in Beta Theta Pi) ; an associate editor of The Targum; was 
elected to Phi Beta Kappa, January, 1873 ; and at graduation was award- 
ed the Murray First Prize for Thesis, also for general scholarship the 
German Oration, which was the sole honor assigned to the Scientific Sec- 
tion of the class. He graduated B.Sc. 1873, M.Sc. 1876; and in 1881 was 
elected a member of the New York Academy of Science. Although he is 
a proficient mathematician ; has been a "contributor to the Mathematical 
department of the Yates County, N. Y., Chronicle, 1373-79; to the 
Mathematical Magazine, 1879-84; to other mathematical publications 
from time to time," and has published historical articles in local papers 
occasionally since 1896; by preference he is a linguist, having mastered 
French, Spanish, Italian and German, all of which he has taught, as well 
as Latin, can read Portuguese and Provengal ; and has prepared for col- 
lege many students in modern languages and mathematics. 

He read law, 1878-80, in the office of Judge John J. Armstrong at 
Jamaica, N. Y., and was admitted to the New York bar 1880, but never 
practiced in that state. 



SCIENTIFIC SECTION— GRADUATES 37 

He attends the Protestant Episcopal Church ; has been a member of 
Solomon's Lodge, No. 46, A. F. & A. M., since 1876, and of Keystone 
Chapter, No. 25, R. A. M., since 1884 (both of Somerville, N. J.) ; is a 
Progressive in politics ; once fond of rowing, he now makes a hobby of 
fruit culture. He never married. 

His residences and occupations : 1873, Bound Brook, N. J. Geological 
Survey, field work in Warren county; 1874-77, Neshanic, N. J., instruc- 
tor in Mathematics and French, Neshanic Institute; 1877-81, Queens, N. 
Y., principal of graded school and law student; 1881-84, Bound Brook, 
surveying — private practice and for Somerset County; 1884-86, Wilson's 
Point and Lake Providence, La., U. S. Government Survey of Missis- 
sippi River; 1886-88, Kingston, N. Y., Instructor in Mathematics and 
French, Golden Hill Seminary; 1888-90, Kansas, Title searching and 
draughting; 1890-91, Flushing, N. Y., Instructor in Mathematics, Short- 
hand and Spanish, Flushing Institute; 1891-98, Bound Brook, Motive 
power department, Central Railroad of N. J. ; since 1898, Bound Brook, 
Assistant County Engineer of Somerset county (roads and bridges), with 
private engineering practice. 

HERBERT FULLER WATTSON. 
Escondido, California. 

Born July 16, 1853, in Greeley, Delaware County, Iowa, he removed 
to Clayton, N. J., in 1865 and attended the public school there irregularly 
till 1870. His father, Robert Miller Wattson, has been described as 
"machinist, forwarding and commission, farmer and horticulturist, and 
physically one of the strongest men that ever lived. When sixteen he 
lifted seven hundred pounds with one arm." His mother, Lydia Fuller, 
was of Connecticut and Montgomery County, N. Y., stock. 

He came to Rutgers 1870 ; graduated B.Sc. 1873, M.Sc. 1876 ; passed 
some time in Colorado and California, but returned to Clayton, which he 
finally quitted in 1884, and has resided since in Idaho, Washington and 
California. He has experienced all of the vicissitudes of pioneer life; 
enjoys baseball, and is an amateur horticulturist and melon-grower. He 
says that politically he is a "Dissenter." 

He married in California, 1889, a lady whose baptismal name was 
Edith. 

WILLIAM HALL WILLIAMSON. 
Died in Philadelphia, Pa., April 22, 1905. 

His father, Isaac Van Doren Williamson, merchant and fanner, who 
died in New Brunswick, N. J., April 2, 1872, was of Dutch extraction 
and a grandson of Cornelius Williamson of Neshanic, N. J. His mother, 
MaricoLouisa Schenck, daughter of Gilbert and Rachel [Van Liew] 



38 CLASS OF 1873 

Schenck, was of the seventh generation in descent from Martin Schenck, 
Dutch immigrant 1650; a granddaughter of John Schenck, captain in the 
Revolutionary War ; and of the fifth generation from Frederick Van 
Liewen, Dutch immigrant, 1670, of Huguenot origin. Four members of 
the Schenck family, his near relatives, were Rutgers alumni, viz. : Louis 
Hoff, A.B. 1874, A.M. 1877, Trustee of Rutgers 1905-10; John Ludlow, 
A.B. 1883; Sam. Corle, A.B. 1889, A.M. 1894; George Brown, class of 
1893, who died January 23, 1897. 

Born April 26, 1855, in Flagtown, N. J., he resided in Fairview, 111., 
1856-60 ; removed to New Brunswick, N. J., 1860, and attended the pub- 
lic schools there till 1868. After preparation in Rutgers Prep School, 
1868-70, he entered Rutgers, 1870, and was a Commencement orator at 
graduation, B.Sc. 1873, M.Sc. 1876; practiced civil engineering, 1873-76; 
and conducted a private school, 1876-78, at Neshanic, N. J. He entered 
the New Brunswick Theological Seminary 1878, graduated and was li- 
censed to preach, 1881, and thereafter was an active and successful min- 
ister of the Reformed Church of America. He was a Republican. 

He married :First, in Somerville, N. J., December 6, 1883, A. Jean- 
nette Barnes. Second, June 2, 1902, Caroline Allison Bitting. There 
were no children. 

His pastorates: 1882-83, Annandale, N. J.; 1883-89, Tappan, N. Y. ; 
1889-92, Irving Park (Chicago, 111.); 1892-99, Grand Rapids, Mich., 
First Church ; 1899-1905, Second Church of Philadelphia, Pa. 



Non-Graduates 

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS CONKLING. 

Died in 1874. 

Coming from Mansfield Academy, Brooklyn, N. Y., he entered the 
Scientific Course at Rutgers, 1870, and joined Delta Phi, but at the end 
of the first year he left to enter mercantile Ufe. With his signature in 
the matriculation book is coupled the name of "Mrs. N. T. Conkling, 192 
Washington St., Brooklyn,'' supposed to have been that of his mother. 
No more has been learned of him. 

TEUNIS GARRET BERGEN CORTELYOU. 
122 West 94th Street, New York City. 

He was born February 22, 1855, in Flatbush, Long Island, N. Y., the 
son of Peter Lefiferts Cortelyou, farmer, and Jane Bergen. Removing 
from his birthplace at an early age, he resided in Matawan, N. J., till 
about 1875, and since that time has lived in New York City or vicinity. 



SCIENTIFIC SECTION— NON-GRADUATES 39 

He came from Glenwood Collegiate Institute to Rutgers in 1869; was in 
the class of 1872 one year and in the class of 1873 two terms, 1870-71. 
His occupation is "clerking"; he is a Democrat; and a member of St. 
Agnes Church in 92d street. 

He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., December IS, 1889, Ella H., daugh- 
ter of James M. Rowan, and they have one son, T. G. B. Cortelyou, Jr., 
born May 19, 1891. 

JOSEPH ADDISON CROWELL. 
Iron Mountain, Mich. 

The founder of the family, Edward Crowell, is said to have changed 
his name from "Cromwell" when he emigrated from England to Wood- 
bridge, N. J. Our subject was born in Rahway, N. J., September 28, 
1853; attended the Collegiate and Commercial Institute, New Haven, 
Conn., 1866-68; then was engaged in orange culture in Florida; and en- 
tered Rutgers 1870, affiliating with the class of 1873 till nearly the end of 
the first year. He studied medicine in Philadelphia and later in New 
York University, where he graduated M.D., 1880, and has practiced as a 
physician since. 

He married in Metuchen, N. J., September 5, 1882, Leonora Sdiu- 
macker. They have four daughters, Getinke, Ruth, Leonora and Jean- 
nette, and one son, Joseph Addison. 

His father, Joseph Tucker Crowell, was a printer, editor and publish- 
er. President of the New Jersey Senate 1862, SE>eaker of the New Jersey 
House 1865 ; and his mother was Electa, daughter of Elkanah and Mary 
Phillips [White] Vanderhoeven. Two of his forebears, Joseph Crowell 
and Timothy Bloomfield, were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. 

JAMES KETCHUM DUNSCOMB. 

Residence, No. 351 State Street, Albany, N. Y. 

Office, Nos. 39-41 State Street, Albany, N. Y. 

Born in Albany, N. Y., December 17, 1853, the son of Edward and 
Catherine [Russell] Dunscomb, he has continued to reside in that city, 
v»'here his father was a wholesale lumber dealer who died in 1872. He 
attended private schools and the Albany Boys' Academy, and was with 
the class of 1873 two years, 1870-72. He is a Republican, and a member 
of the Fort Orange Club in Albany. He married in Albany, January — , 
1890, Amelia Bewsher. There are no children. 

His occupations: 1873-81, Clerk, Mechanics & Farmers Bank; 1880- 
82, Lee & Dunscomb, slate mantels ; 1882-89, Phillips & Dunscomb, lum- 
ber; 1890, James K. Dunscomb, lumber; Since June, 1891, Treasurer of 
Albany Hardware & Iron Co. 



40 CLASS OF 1873 

WILLIAM P. HILLHOUSE. 
Denver, Colorado. 

He was born August 10, 1853 ; attended Mpunt Washington Collegi- 
ate Institute, New York City; was resident M'New Brunswick, N. J., 
when he entered Rutgers, 1870, signing the matriculation book as "Wil- 
liam Hillhouse" ; was a member of Delta Phi ; president of the Scientific 
Section of the class, 1870-71 ; and he left college at the end of second 
term, 1872. 

He pvursued civil engineering in California and Arizona one year, 
1873-74; entered Columbia University Law School, 1874, and graduated 
LL.B. 1876; practiced law in New York City, 1876-88, and in Denver 
from 1888 until his retirement in 1910; and has been Professor of Equity 
in the Law School of Denver University since 1892. He has a wife and 
family. 

He protests that the "P" in his name does not stand for "Percy" as 
printed in Rutgers General Catalogues. 

JOHN HENRY HUYLER. 
Died at Tenafly, N. J., July 10, 1891. 

Son of George and Jane [Hopper] Huyler, born September 12, 1852, 
at Tenafly, N. J., he attended the local school in boyhood and resided in 
the paternal homestead all of his life. After preparation in Rutgers Prep. 
School he entered Rutgers, 1870, and joined Delta Kappa Epsilon, but re- 
mained in college only one year. He was a farmer; a member of the 
Presbyterian Church ; a Democrat with "a taste and aptitude for politics" ; 
and was fond of rowing and baseball. 

He married in Paterson, N. J., May 22, 1873, Anna Augusta, daughter 
of Peter Post. Mrs. Huyler survives. Children: Byron M., born Sep- 
tember 5, 1878; John Grover, born March 26, 1887; Laura, born Septem- 
ber 17, 1889; George, born April 10, 1891. 

His civic services: 1874-75, Palisades Township Clerk; 1875-78, Tax 
Commissioner; 1878-81, Commissioner of Tax Appeals; 1886-88, Asses- 
sor; 1887-91, Tax Comnrissioner ; 1889-91, Assessor; 1890-91, Member 
of the Legislative Assembly. 

JEREMIAH B. JOHNSON. 
Died July 21, 1895. 

He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 18, 1853, a son of Jeremiah 
and Maria Ann [Johnson] Johnson, both parents being of Dutch descent. 
He attended private schools in Brooklyn and later in Rahway, N. J., 
where he resided while studying at Rutgers Prep School; was a year in 
Rutgers, 1870-71, and then went to Pennsylvania Military Academy, 



SCIENTIFIC SECTION— NON-GRADUATES 41 

Chester, Pa. He was engaged in the real estate business in Rahway and 
afterward in Brooklyn, where he was connected with the Central Con- 
gregational Church, and where he married, November 16, 1887, Ella F. 
Hayward, a lady of English origin. They had two children: Jeremiah, 
born November 22, 1888, and Herbert B., born September 9, 1891. His 
sister writes : "My brother was of a retiring nature, leading a very sim- 
ple, good, domestic life." 

JULIO HERNANDEZ MARTINEZ. 

A native of Cuba, he came from a boarding school at White Plains, 
N. Y., to Rutgers in 1870, signing the matriculation book as "Julius Mar- 
tinez" and referring to "R. Martinez, 11 E. 29th St., N. Y. City." He 
was the sole member of Zeta Psi in the class of 1873, and he remained in 
college only one year. No detail of his later career has been found. 

WILLIAM MORGAN. 
South River, N. J. 

Son of Daniel and Catherine [Emley] Morgan, he was born in South 
River, N. J., June 9, 1852. The father was a blacksmith and wheel- 
wright; the son attended a private school in Old Bridge, N. J., and con- 
tinued to reside in South River till 1873. He was in Rutgers one year, 
1870-71. He is a Methodist ; an Independent in politics ; and is secretary- 
treasurer of the South River Building and Loan Association. He mar- 
ried at South River, May 24, 1876, Frances Timmans, and they have one 
daughter. May Cornell, who is the wife of Edward Lanzone. 

His occupations and civic services : 1873-75, manufacturing chemist, 
Indianapolis, Ind. ; 1876-80, telegraph construction and operation ; 
1880-92, publisher and dealer in school supplies, Whitehouse, N. J. ; Since 
1892, Undertaker, South River; 1892-99, postmaster. South River; 
1912-15, coroner, Middlesex County, N. J. 

HENRY LIVINGSTON RUTGERS. 
Granger, Washington. 

Born August 27, 1852, in New York City, he attended George C. 
Anthon's school there and after removal to New Brunswick the Rutgers 
Prep School. His father, John Livingston Rutgers, merchant, was a son 
of Nicholas G. Rutgers, president of the Ocean Insurance Co. and mem- 
ber of New York Chamber of Commerce, and his mother, Anna M., was 
a daughter of Col. Robert Le Roy Livingston, U. S. A. and M. C. 

He entered Rutgers, 1870; joined Delta Phi; and left college at the 
end of second term, 1872. He is a Republican and member of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church ; was in the iron trade seven years in New 



42 CLASS OF 1873 

York City and six years in California ; the hardware trade twelve years 
in Minnesota; and has owned a fruit ranch in the State of Washington 
for sixteen years. 

He married in San Francisco, Cal., November, 1881, Mary Macauley. 
They have one daughter, Luna Macauley, born July, 1883. 

EDMUND STEPHENS. 
Died at Closter, N. J., March 22, 1913. 

Son of James H. and Ida Elizabeth [Pye] Stephens, he was born in 
New York City March 5, 1854; resided there till 1866; and in Closter, 
N. T-, thereafter. He attended Hasbrouck Classical and Commercial In- 
stitute, Jersey City; entered Rutgers, 1870; joined Delta Kappa Epsilon; 
and remained in college not more than one year. He was a Republican, a 
charter member of Closter Congregational Church ; a traveling salesman 
and a merchant. 

He married at Closter, October 28, 1874, Sarah Maria, daughter of 
"Rev. Eben S. Hammond, Rutgers A.B. 1839, A.M. 1842, and Isabelle 
Parsell. Mrs. Stephens survives. There are no children. 

His occupations: 1871-75, with E. S. Jaffrey & Co., New York City; 
1875-80, Merchant in Qoster; 1881-1913, successively salesman for, 
stockholder in, and vice president of the H. Griffin & Sons Co., dealers 
in bookbinders' materials, New York City. 

HENRY CADMUS STRYKER. 
222 West 141st Street, New York City. 

His great-grandfather, Peter Stryker, was a m.inister of the Reformed 
Church of America for 61 years; his grandfather, Herman Barcalo 
Stryker, ditto for 49j^ years; his father, Peter Stryker (Rutgers A.B. 
1845, A.M. 1848; N. B. Theo. Sem. 1848; N. Y. Univ. D.D. 1866), was 
a minister of the Reformed Church of America 32^/2 years and of the 
Presbyterian Church 20 years. His mother, Caroline Hankinson Smock, 
was a sister of Rev. John H. Smock, Rutgers A.B. 1863, A. M. 1866. 

He was born in Rhinebeck, N. Y., February 23, 1853 ; resided suc- 
cessively in Rhinebeck, New York City, and Philadelphia, Pa. ; attended 
sundry private and public schools in New York ; also Lauderback's School 
and the Polytechnic College in Philadelphia, each one year. He entered 
Rutgers, 1870, and joined Chi Phi, but left college at the end of second 
term, 1872. He then read law in the office of Judge S. C. Lester, Sara- 
toga, N. Y. ; attended lectures at Columbia Law School, 1879-81 ; was ad- 
mitted to the bar at Ithaca, N. Y., 1881, in Minnesota, 1884; was clerk 
of the N. Y. State Bar Association, 1882-83 ; and attorney for Minnesota 
State Pharmaceutical Society, 1894. Rutgers made him an Hon. A.M. 



SCIENTIFIC SECTION— TRANSFER 43 

in 1892. He is unmarried ; a Christian Scientist ; a Republican ; is an or- 
ganizer and promoter; and enjoys walking and boating. 

He claims as cousins more or less remote: Garret Augustus Hobart, 
1863; Teunis Garret Bergen, 1867; Charles Augustus Runk, 1874; Daniel 
S. Schanck, 1875 ; George Boice Thompson, 1889 ; Augustus Hobart 
Smock, 1893 ; Charles Thiers Thompson, 1908 ; Merrill H. Thompson, 
1919. 

His residences: 1871-72, Jersey City, N. J.; 1872-75, New York City; 
1875-79, Rome, N. Y.; 1879-80, Enon, Pa.; 1880-81, Jamesburg, N. J.; 
1881-84, Saratoga, N. Y.; 1884-1900, Minneapolis, Minn.; Since 1900, 
New York City. 

Transfer 

DANIEL S. SCHANCK. 
Died March 31, 1901. 

Born in 1854, a son of D. S. Schanck of No. 27 Chambers street. New 
York City, he was in the Scientific School at Rutgers two years, 1870-71 
with the class of 1873, and 1871-72 with the class of 1875. He was a 
member of Chi Phi ; a cousin of Henry Cadmus Stryker, a non-graduate 
of the class of 1873 ; he became a lawyer and resided in Freehold, N. J. 
(For fuller details consult the "History of the Class of 1875.") 



LIBRARY 



c% 



e?ffSi"«»*^ 



